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Inside Roots Butchery in the town of Acornhoek in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, a butcher in red overalls guides a slab of beef through a meat saw. The blade screeches as it cuts through bone.  Around him, other workers are preparing packages for Saturday morning shoppers queuing in the cool, fluorescent-lit shop, a welcome break from the October Lowveld heat. To the left, a curtain of raw sausage hangs from stainless steel rails.  Gloria Sekome, who was murdered by her ex-partner Danboy Nkuna, ...

If the current rate of vaccination continues, it will take most of us 16 years, give or take, to get a jab, according to Media Hack, the vaccine calculator. But South Africa’s vaccine task team reckons that the target of 67% immunisation can be achieved by December as stock scales up from April 21.  A rare thrombosis noted in six women vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) in the US has caused a seven- to 10-day pause there and in Europe; SA has stopped its trial too. The J&J vaccine had b...

David Prado We searched English online media outlets for stories of women who were murdered in South Africa between 2018 and 2020 —  only 4% of the official cases showed up. One in four female homicides reported in the media was a woman killed by her partner at the time. Many other murdered women remain nameless with their stories untold. This is an ode to the women whose names made it into news outlets between 2018 and 2020. It is also a tribute to those who did not - the faceless, nameless...

To end the Covid-19 pandemic, we need to get vaccinated. But if the current vaccination rate becomes the average, it will take 18 years and 16 days to reach a herd immunity of 67% of the population. The Media Hack launched a vaccination calculator on March 15, and it calculated that if the current rate of vaccines becomes the norm, we should reach herd immunity by 2039.  Professor Barry Schoub, the chairperson of the government’s vaccine ministerial advisory committee says: “It is what wa...

When will I get a vaccine? Use these calculators 17 March 2021 2:07 PM Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Share This: Ferial Haffajee says the only way were going to get our economy back on track is to ensure the second wave plan stays on track. Ferial Haffajee, associate editor at Daily Maverick, asks in an article: When will we get the vaccine? She says we need to get vaccinated, but if the current vaccination rate becomes the average, it will take 18 years to and 16...

Only, the world of Covid reporting isn’t a wonderland – it’s hell. A year later after South Africa’s first Covid-19 case, our reporters have scars, but at least they’ve got more answers than in 2020. Covid-19 has been in South Africa for a year, and it’s been an outrageous 365 days.  We’ve got some scars for sure, but at the very least we’ve got more answers than we did back in 2020. Case in point: South Africa’s second batch of Covid vaccines arrived from Johnson & Johnson o...

A comparison between the number of cases and deaths in the first and second coronavirus waves in South Africa reveals a concerning trend.

New research shows the districts in South Africa with the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases per 100,000 people over the past few days.

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Available thats able to do the job and deliver a service. >> absolutely. >> heres something else. greg, greg dont worry. >> i just want to make a point and im not fanning the phrase im just saying glitches are what happened to your cable system. it shouldnt happen to your colon so we should stop using the word glitches. i also want to make a point about the media. ezra klein said the flaws that were talking about now had been obscured. it wasnt obscured to us. anybody with common sense, and who ...