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Media Credit: Photo Illustration by Grace Hromin | Assistant Photo Editor About 18 percent of the surveys respondents reported feeling isolated, while 17 percent said distractions at home hindered their ability to learn. News By Clara Duhon Jan 18, 2021 11:28 PM Student Association first-year senators presented its first report last week detailing challenges facing freshmen during online learning. Three first-year senators released a survey in October asking the Class of 2024 about their th...

SA senators approved recommendations for officials to increase social activities and academic support for the freshman class at its first meeting of the spring.

Marizka Coetzer The only way out of the pandemic is by forced vaccinations. A woman selling clothes along a busy street in Olievenhoutbosch can be seen wearing a mask to prevent contracting Covid-19, 21 August 2020. Picture: Jacques Nelles South Africans are sitting on the edges of their seats to hear if the country will be place...

Forbes Africa Published 4 months ago There has been enough debate and deliberation around South Africa’s proposed National Health Insurance Bill for unified health coverage. Covid-19 has turned the spotlight on it again, and there’s more news expected in February 2021. I FEEL GOOD,” WERE THE LAST WORDS 33-YEAR-OLD Charlie Mpogeng remembers his brother, Herman Motlhabane, saying to him before his untimely passing on the morning of July 17. Motlhabane died, his relatives not knowing it was...

Gallo Images/Daily Sun/Lucky Morajane A circular from Helen Joseph Hospital indicated that Halaal food services for patients would be discontinued, to the dismay of the Muslim community. The Gauteng health department blamed poor management at the hospital. The department said the circular had been withdrawn and apologised to the Muslim community, assuring them that Halaal food catering would continue. The Gauteng Department of Health on Wednesday moved to assure Muslim patients at Johannesburgs...

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Ten days after South Africans got the December party started, Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize announced that a second wave of Covid-19 infections was sweeping the country with a worrying rate of infections among young people. With more than 8,000 new cases confirmed on Thursday, outbreaks in four provinces are driving the current wave of coronavirus infections, with the majority of new cases from the Western Cape (30%), followed by ...