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The NICD is a specialised division of the National Health Laboratory Service and plays a key role in communicable disease surveillance.

A Johannesburg pre-school principal was summoned to court by former Eskom CEO looking to give her a "big klap" for a "defamatory" tweet.

In the last decade, international organisations have been moving away from this aid-led approach to a more market driven approach.

New studies further our knowledge about Covid-19. With new treatments on trial, old treatments being reviewed, compulsory vaccinations and masks as a must.

In recent months, Central African politicians and journalists have shared images of the military posing in front of different town signs – seemingly as proof of the state regaining control over a country caught up in civil war for almost ...

A safe space and therapy in the form of art, drama and music is offered to Johannesburg children between the ages of six and 18.

There has been a lot of angry debate about the provision that a 30% share of Nigerian National Petroleum Commission profit should be set aside for frontier exploration and 3% contributed to trust funds for host communities.

This process of structural transformation is general. Countries like the US and the UK have all gone through it. South Africa is going through it right now.

Members of an anti-crime forum in East London are facing several charges of kidnapping and murder. But the residents support the vigilantes.

Political analyst Ralph Mathekga’s new book, The ANC’s Last Decade: how the decline of the party will transform South Africa, is a welcome addition.

Busiswa Pikinini, who has been waiting since 2010, is one of many disabled residents of Khayelitsha still hoping for government housing.

As a team of South African researchers we have identified a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. A lineage represents a genetically distinct virus population with a common ancestor.

Police minister, Bheki Cele, has presented a new agreement that will allow SAPS commanders to veto decisions made by the IPID.

If South Africa were to lower the pupil-teacher ratio from the current 30 to a typical middle income country level of around 25, it would need an additional 100,000 teachers.

NPO chairman, Tebogo Sithathu, threatens the media attempting to investigate Lottery fund corruption after a suspicious R10 million grant.

The double-digit increases in South Africa’s recently released quarterly crime statistics are eye-watering, but they do not mean crime is spinning out of control or “soaring”. They need to be put in context.

After a failed attempt at firing her, PRASA is suing its currently suspended head of legal services, Martha Ngoye.

The term fracking refers to the high-pressure injection of water mixed with fluid chemical additives – including friction reducers, gels and acids – and “propping agents” such as sand to create fractures in deep rock formations such as shale, allowing ...

It has been said that malaria breeds poverty, and poverty breeds malaria.

It’s been in existence since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town in South Africa, has never had a dictionary until now.

The Islamic State Khorasan Province, which is also known by the acronyms ISIS-K, ISKP and ISK, is the official affiliate of the Islamic State movement operating in Afghanistan, as recognized by Islamic State core leadership in Iraq and Syria.

Central banks are creatures of their society. Society creates institutions and gives them a particular responsibility. The one thing common across central banks is that they have a responsibility for price stability.

A solution that will allow undocumented persons to receive the covid vaccine is being developed and is expected to be available from October

Spotify provides aggregated listening data across a country, as well as an algorithm that classifies the positivity or negativity of each song. Using these inputs, we calculate “music sentiment” — a measure of a country’s sentiment as expressed by the ...