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31 May 2020 | SA commemorates World NO Tobacco Day 2020
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29 May 2020 | Flu season is bad news for Covid-19 severity, scientists warn
Worsening the situation, are the country’s extreme socioeconomic disparities, which threaten the survival of vulnerable communities.As South Afr...
29 May 2020 | Mthembu: Cigarettes sales will be allowed under level 2
‘I can assure you after we’ve been out of level 3, I don’t see the ban on the sale of cigarettes continuing,' said Minister in the P...
29 May 2020 | Organisation discusses malnutrition in SA children on World Hunger Day
Recently, our country’s leaders and medical representatives have publicly debated the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on the malnutrition rates ...
29 May 2020 | This is why we banned cigarette sales: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma tells court
The overarching rationale behind temporarily banning the sale of tobacco products during level 4 of the lockdown was to protect human life and health ...
28 May 2020 | 'Deepening inequalities?': The impact of Covid-19 school closures on education in SA
By mid April about 1.725 billion students globally had been affected by the closure of school and higher education institutions in response to the cor...
28 May 2020 | Back to school, Part 1: No dress-up for 'Treasure Island' this year
Schools are scheduled to open on 1 June for Grade 7 and 12 with a phased re-opening for the other grades. This week school teams were scheduled to ret...
28 May 2020 | COVID-19 'compounding' peace and security in Africa
COVID-19 presents a risk of “further compounding and complicating conflicts and insecurity in [Africa] that will have a lasting impact” in...
28 May 2020 | Freedom of speech and public interest, not allegiance, should underpin science advisement to government
South Africa (SA) is Africa’s science heavyweight, leading the continent in scientific output, and ranks in the top 40 globally in research prod...
28 May 2020 | Minister Blade Nzimande calls for African solutions to Covid-19 during Africa Day
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, assured Africa's scientific community that just as the continent had defe...