Covid-19

Four months after the Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant for unemployed individuals was announced, scores of people have still not received their...

Deputy higher education minister Buti Manamela says institutions of higher learning will forge ahead with plans to operate at 33% capacity to limit the...

Desperate scenes played out at some Eastern Cape day hospitals and clinics on Monday as people were either turned away by the hundreds, apparently...

Schools are set to partially reopen next week with teachers opening on Monday, May 4, and pupils two days later. Basic education director-general Mathanzima Mweli...

Old Brown Sherry is not a cure for Covid-19‚ as claimed in viral social media posts. Rumours have been circulating on social media in which...

The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has extended the processing of new claims for Covid-19 temporary employee/employer relief scheme (Ters) benefits — but grant payments...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is urging local leaders on a government, community and business level to support the upcoming Vooma Vaccination Weekend in order to...

Labour department health and safety inspectors have ordered a total and immediate shutdown of East London’s Frere Hospital over concerns that its measures for...

UNATHI NKANJENI The arrival of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine in SA has been welcomed by many online. The first delivery of 80,000 J&J vaccines...

Havens of care for the elderly are having to work to fill residents’ days as they isolate to cope with the pandemic, writes Paula...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the surge in murders of women and children in SA, saying it has been “a dark and shameful week...

  Twenty schools in Buffalo City have been forced to close in the first week of the government's ambitious plan to return pupils...

One of the first institutions to feel the impact of the national lockdown was schools, which closed in March last year and have been...

Three options discussed ahead of minister Angie Motshekga's briefing today The department of basic education is proposing that the school timetable be rearranged to allow...

A section of the Eastern Cape health department call centre building in East London has been temporarily closed and will be decontaminated after four...

A Durban doctor has warned of a possible Covid-19 sixth wave based on the number of positive patients he has treated since Monday. Dr Kevindra...

Furious with the Eastern Cape government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in Nelson Mandela Bay, health minister Zweli Mkhize has taken charge, sending a...

TAMAR KAHN AND CAROL PATON and GENEVIEVE QUINTAL SA’s Covid-19 deaths are projected to reach up to 48,000 by November and the country could run...

All gatherings are prohibited, effectively immediately, except for funerals with a maximum of 50 people, said President Cyril Ramaphosa. The sale of all alcohol...

Mom ready with steam iron before primary school child can enter home Shared anxiety and determination united pupils and teachers at Gauteng schools on Monday,...

  Santaco, the umbrella body for taxi associations, has launched an investigation into taxi drivers who have drastically increased prices since the lockdown. According to government...

South Africa's total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases is now 1,845, an increase of 96 from the previously reported cases, according to a statement...

Health minister Zweli Mkhize says discussions around “stricter precautions” ahead of the Easter long weekend are being finalised. Speaking to the SABC on Thursday, Mkhize said...

Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe has tested positive for Covid-19. His positive test was confirmed in a statement on behalf of cabinet on...

New regulations gazetted yesterday, March 1, by the Minister of Transport expressly forbids domestic air operators from providing any inflight catering and further states...

Cabinet after consultation with the provinces has decided to maintain the country at Adjusted Alert Level 4 for another 14 days.  This means that...

The R10m "scooter ambulance" tender awarded by the health department in the Eastern Cape for the transport of patients has been declared invalid and...

Buffalo City Metro on Monday said that the management of an East London establishment had been arrested after a video had surfaced showing patrons...

When President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on Sunday, indications are he is likely to ban gatherings and tighten restrictions on alcohol. Acting health minister...

The Eastern Cape health department has come under fire for what its critics say is a wholesale lack of preparedness for a surge in...

ELSABÉ BRITS Originally published by GroundUp Four court cases have been launched against the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) to compel the regulator to...

GUGU PHANDLE Three critical medical units this week were closed at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in Mdantsane after some staffers tested positive for Covid-19. The hospital's intensive...

President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation about the Covid-19 state of disaster at 8pm on Saturday. Ramaphosa's spokesperson, Tyrone Seale, said the address followed...

With the rapid increase of Covid-19 cases in the Eastern Cape, it was unthinkable that the province had yet to build field hospitals across...

Former public protector Prof Thuli Madonsela says she is “baffled” that some citizens face arrest for the violation of lockdown regulations‚ while those organising...

There are 200 Eastern Cape schools that remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic‚ premier Oscar Mabuyane said in Bhisho on Tuesday morning. Mabuyane said...

UNATHI NKANJENI The second move to level 1 lockdown has been met with mixed reactions online. On Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the country would...

There were 633 Covid-19 related deaths recorded in the past 24 hours, taking the country past another grim milestone. The deaths — the highest since...

NALEDI SHANGE All contact sports in schools have been suspended with immediate effect from Wednesday. This is the word from the council of education ministers after...

The Eastern Cape government is desperately trying to track down more than 100 people who attended a funeral in Majola, Port St Johns after...

Co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has outlined level 1 lockdown changes and some restrictions. On Monday‚ Dlamini-Zuma published the new gazette...

Nelson Mandela Bay is fast becoming the epicentre of Covid-19 in the Eastern Cape with nearly 60% of cases recorded in the province located...

As of last night, a cumulative total of 579 140 confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa have been recorded. Case Data Province Total cases for 14 August 2020 Percentage...

Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has criticised some political leaders for “irresponsible” behaviour and hosting mass public gatherings amid the surge in Covid-19 infections. She...

Those of us trying to model the Covid-19 pandemic should try to be humble; there is more we don’t know than we do. Anyone who...

Three more residents of a Durban old-age home have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total to five. Dudley Fortune of the Bill Buchanan Association...

While the Omicron wave has led to a surge in Covid-19 infections, health minister Joe Phaahla said in a Friday briefing that there were...

A Mossel Bay man took his accordion, stood in the cold outside the hospital where his wife is receiving treatment in the Covid-19 wards,...

IAVAN PIJOOS The electronic vaccine data system self-registration portal is up and running with more than 34,000 health-care workers already registering for the vaccine, the...