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6 Jun 2022 | CIVIL SOCIETY: Petition calls for total recall of NPO Amendment Bill amid fears for sector
Non-profit organisations (NPOs) play an integral role in South African society, providing support, funding and expertise in areas ranging from social ...
6 Jun 2022 | Vaccine Hesitancy Declines Slightly
A University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) COVID-19 Democracy Survey has found that vaccine hesitancy declined sligh...
3 Jun 2022 | Conceptualisation Of Research Platform To Help Address Africa's Socio-Economic Challenges
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, has welcomed the idea of an African Continental Research Foundation (ACRF...
3 Jun 2022 | Covid crisis could be the catalyst for a return to rural revolt in South Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic has created a biomedical crisis with far-reaching cultural, political and economic implications in rural areas. As in the 1950s,...
1 Jun 2022 | The time may be ripe to imagine a new African dawn
On 25 May, Rhodes University joined the rest of the continent in the commemoration of Africa Day. The University’s Institute for Social and Econ...
31 May 2022 | Survey finds Covid-19 vaccine side effects main driver of hesitancy in SA
Only half of South Africa’s 40 million adults have received a Covid-19 vaccine, and according to a survey, vaccine general effectiveness and sid...
30 May 2022 | Covid-19: Vaccine hesitancy on the decline; Gauteng reaches 10 million vaccine target
This week in Covid-19 related news, a survey has shown that there was a slight decline in hesitancy among people to get vaccinated, while Gauteng has ...
30 May 2022 | SA records 3 274 new COVID-19 cases
South Africa has recorded 3 274 new COVID-19 cases, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 3 948 119. This increase repre...
25 May 2022 | Stellenbosch University incident 'akin to urinating on Constitution itself'' |Lamola
Justice and Constitutional Development Minister, Ronald Lamola has strongly condemned the racist incident between two students at Stellenbosch Univers...