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[ad_1] The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) says it will embark on strike action across the country next week in response to a number of economic problems facing the country. Saftu is the second largest of the country’s major union confederations, with 21 affiliated unions organizing 800,000 workers. …

[ad_1] The Economic Times of India reports that the South African government has approached the Serum Institute of India asking it to withdraw AstraZeneca’s 1 million vaccines. Vice President David Mabuza and President Cyril Ramaphosa celebrate the arrival of the first million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at OR …

[ad_1] For Botho Molosankwe 2h ago Share this article: SharecheepShareShareShareEmailShare Johannesburg – The Mpumalanga Police Commissioner has appealed to officers to seek help for their domestic problems and not to suffer in silence following an incident in which a police officer killed her boyfriend and her baby committed suicide. Lieutenant …

[ad_1] Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga The Basic Education Department said reports from its provincial departments indicated that schools were on track to reopen on Monday. Some schools were unable to reopen on January 25 due to various challenges. The department said the platoon would be back in place …

[ad_1] For Jolene Marriah-Maharaj 8h ago Share this article: SharecheepShareShareShareEmailShare Durban – South Africa’s Covid-19 recovery rate now stands at 93 percent with 151 more deaths recorded in the past 24 hours. According to daily statistics published by the Health Department, 31,149 new tests were carried out in the last …

[ad_1] Health authorities in Middlesbrough in north-west England have ordered additional tests for coronavirus following the detection of a case of the South African variant. The mutant strain of coronavirus, which has now been detected more than 200 times in the UK, was identified as part of a random sequencing …

[ad_1] Bogus Covid-19 researchers have been going around, drawing blood samples from people, the Limpopo health department warned. The order to freeze the pension of the CFO of the Department of Agriculture, Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, Jacob Basil Hlatshwayo, has been extended The order follows an investigation by the …

[ad_1] President Jacob Zuma joined the political heavyweights who said goodbye to Dr. Meshack Radebe in Maqongqo outside Pietermaritzburg on Saturday. Meshack Radebe died in hospital last week on Saturday at the age of 71. He spent many years as MEC for social development, as well as for agriculture and …

[ad_1] The unprecedented speed at which vaccines have been manufactured, tested, and distributed to combat an ever-changing virus presents unprecedented challenges for all of us, writes Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Joe Phaahla. Vaccines are most effective against static targets, and SARS-CoV-2 is anything but stationary. The massive scale of …

[ad_1] Some people in South Africa have been reinfected with Covid-19 variants after they had already recovered from the virus, World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Friday. “We are now receiving reports of people being re-infected with the new variant of the virus, and there have …