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John Magufuli, Tanzanian president elected as an agent of reform, dies at 61 Matt Schudel © Michele Spatari/AFP/Getty Images Tanzanian President John Magufuli in 2019. John Magufuli, who presided over an increasingly authoritarian regime as president of Tanzania and, during the final year of his reign, rejected scientific evidence of the coronavirus pandemic, urging his citizens to raise their voices in prayer rather than cover their faces with masks, died March 17 at a hos...

Channels Television   Updated March 17, 2021 (FILES) Tanzanian President John Magufuli has died from a heart condition, his vice president said in an address on state television on March 17, 2021,, after days of uncertainty over his health and whereabouts. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)   Tanzanian President John Magufuli died Wednesday aged 61 from a heart condition, his vice president said, after more than five years of divisive, authoritarian rule capped by his refusal to take COVID-19 s...

Nzimande’s last-minute scramble to find funding for students has not stopped them from mobilising for a nationwide shutdown.

Around half of South Africa's population is thought to have contracted Covid-19, studies and statisticians say, suggesting the virus.

Daily news update: Zuma vs Zondo, back to school and another blow for Dudu Myeni The Citizen Jacob Zuma. Picture: Pool/AFP/File/Michele Spatari An easy-to-read selection of our top stories. Stay up to date with The Citizen – More News, Your Way. Here’s your morning news update: ...

Translate Home » Coronavirus Updates » ‘In a queue to die’: South Africa nurses work in fear and exhaustion ‘In a queue to die’: South Africa nurses work in fear and exhaustion On Kindly Share This Story: Healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) make their way out one of the temporary wards dedicated to the treatment of possible COVID-19 coronavirus patients at the Nasrec Field Hospital in Soweto, on January 25, 2021. (Photo by Michele Spatar...

Channels Television   Updated February 1, 2021 An illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19 Vaccine stickers attached and syringes, with the logo of the University of Oxford and its partner British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, on November 17, 2020. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP   South Africa on Monday took delivery of its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines, paving the way to the first phase of inoculation in Africa’s worst-hit country. President Cyril Ramaphosa received one million d...

Channels Television   Updated January 27, 2021 File photo: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) nurse Bhelekazi Mdlalose (L), 51, performs a swab test for COVID-19 coronavirus on a health worker at the Vlakfontein Clinic in Lenasia, Johannesburg, on May 13, 2020. Michele Spatari / AFP   The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has announced that it will be facilitating a controlled, compassionate access programme for the use of the anti-parasitic drug, Ivermectin. The drug whi...

Text size Pictures by Michele Spatari and Luca Sola. Video by Antoine Demaison and Catherine Schenck "This place is definitely not what it used to be," said Eben Uys, gently wiping the dust from the counter of his bar. Like more than 200 South African microbrewery and restaurant owners, Uys is fighting to keep his business afloat after a new ban on alcohol sales to combat the soaring numbers of coronavirus cases. But like some others he has managed to adapt to survive. The 36-year-old che...

South Africa is struggling to contain a second wave of Covid-19 infections, fuelled by a virulent new local variant of the virus, “Covid fatigue” and a series of “super-spreader” events. On Thursday health officials announced 844 deaths and 21,832 new cases in a 24-hour period, the worst toll yet. Experts believe the second wave has yet to reach its peak in the country of 60 million, and fear healthcare services in the country’s main economic...