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In the latest news in South Africa on Thursday 19 August 2021, a recent study has found that White South Africans are most hesitant to get jabs.

Tebogo Letsie, Gallo Images, City Press The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure and the Special Investigating Unit have created a new anti-corruption forum. The forum is aimed at monitoring infrastructure projects more effectively and putting systems in place to detect and prevent corruption. Representatives of the forum include the NPA and the Hawks. The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure and the Special Investigating Unit have created a new anti-corruption forum aimed at...

Rethinking South Africas macroeconomic policy approach CATEGORY: Latest News AUTHOR: Andrea Teagle We are in a historical time of momentous changes in macroeconomic thinking that have been driven by the need to respond to crises, said macroeconomics expert Dr Seeraj Mohamed, while speaking at the first of a series of Macroeconomic Policy Dialogues hosted by the Human Sciences Research Council. Mohamed and fellow economists Gilad Isaacs and Alexis Habiyaremye argued that fiscal stimulation is a...

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Emeritus Professor Crain Soudien presented his research paper A Rereading of Kies’ ‘The Contribution of the Non-European Peoples to World Civilization’ during the second instalment of the Mafeje-Jordan Seminar Series, held on Wednesday 12 May 2021. Emeritus Professor Soudien is a former deputy vice-chancellor at UCT, where he continues to contribute to the School of Education and Centre for African Studies (CAS). He recently also concluded his term ...

Academics voice their support of Heathfield High School Principal Wesley Neumann By Opinion School education has been at the forefront of responses to the pandemic. The sector has had to make hard life-and-death decisions about the health and safety of our school communities – our students, staff, and parents. In mid-2020, after an initial period of complete lockdown, schools and school authorities in the Western Cape and other provinces grappled with the question of the return of studen...

Prof Crain Soudien is the Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council. He holds an M.Ed from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and obtained a PhD in Education from the same university in 1996. Before joining the HSRC in September 2015, he was a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He remains a professor in the School of Education at UCT. His areas of research interest include: social difference, culture, education policy, comparative educati...

About 80,000 Johnson and Johnsons vaccine would be delivered this week to kick off South Africas covid immunization campaign. Healthcare workers at the Ndlovu Care Group in rural north eastern part of the country cant wait.

Health care workers at the Ndlovu Care Group in rural South Africa are among those eagerly awaiting the first jabs of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is being rolled out to them starting this week

After testing thousands of people for coronavirus, South African nurse Asnath Masango says she can't wait to get vaccinated. “So many people, I test them and within days they have passed away,” said Masango. “I want protection.” C.J. Umunnakwe, a virologist running a lab that has performed more than 40,000 virus tests, says he “wholeheartedly…

Feb 2, 2021 JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa gave a hero’s welcome Monday to the delivery of its first COVID-19 vaccines — 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa greeted the crates of vaccine that arrived at Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International Airport. The shipment will be followed up later this month by another 500,000 doses. The vaccine will be effective in preventing severe disease and death fro...