Covid-19
Critical KZN education posts still vacant post-Covid and floods
The Covid-19 pandemic, plus the deadly floods in KwaZulu-Natal have dealt a heavy blow on the provincial department of education's budget with a number...
Children orphaned by Covid-19 in South Africa near 150 000
Covid-19 associated deaths have left nearly 150 000 children as orphans, Unicef has revealed in a report.
The number increased to 207 400 when including...
University of Free State lifts Covid-19 vaccination regulations
The University of the Free State (UFS) has lifted the Covid-19 vaccination regulations with immediate effect.
The UFS Covid-19 regulations and required vaccination policy was...
Professor Glenda Gray among most visible scientist during Covid
A study has found that South African Medical Research Council president and CEO, professor Glenda Gray, was one of the most visible female scientist...
Mandatory vaccination policy puts Solidarity, UFS at loggerheads
Trade union Solidarity contemplates a lawsuit against the University of the Free State (UFS) after the university said the vaccination for students and its...
Nxesi urges employers to ‘play it safe’ following scrapping of Covid-19...
Lifting the Covid-19 regulations does not mean employers should start behaving reckless in regards to health and safety in the workplace, said Employment and...
Mortality insurance claims normalise to pre-pandemic levels, says FNB Life
Mortality claims have returned to pre-Covid-19 levels, shows a report released by the FNB Life insurance.
According to the report, mortality claims subsided during the...
SIU welcomes invalidation of R4.8m Covid-19 awareness tender
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed the Special Tribunal’s decision to set aside the R4.8-million contract awarded to Phathilizwi Training Institute to conduct...
SA not yet in fifth wave and no new variant confirmed...
South Africa recorded 3 273 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24-hour reporting period, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Monday,...
Department clears confusion on school kids wearing masks
Children at schools are still expected to wear face masks, the Department of Health said on Thursday afternoon, putting to bed the confusion that...
