[Daily Maverick] The Department of Higher Education has invested more than R68m into Covid-19 research and vaccine development. A further R25m has been allocated to the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (Krisp) to combat SARS-...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Johannesburg -- Activist-turned-entrepreneur Joanie Fredericks offers safe transport options for women in a Cape Town crime hotspot

[Daily Maverick] Referring to the collapse of the Amathole District Municipality, a major water services municipality providing water to areas like Butterworth, Peddie, Bedford, Adelaide, Stutterheim and hundreds of smaller villages, Nontando Ngamlan...

[Daily Maverick] The National Student Financial Aid Scheme saw a 25% jump in funding applications for 2021. Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande says this shows an increasing demand for access to higher education and training opportunities.

[Daily Maverick] The future of work has been irreversibly altered. Some version of a hybrid remote-office-industry working model is here to stay, depending on the industry. Universities will do well to create curricula that nurture the next level of ...

[Daily Maverick] Contrary to claims in a 2019 Daily Maverick article, Mkambathi on the Eastern Cape Wild Coast is neither being sold nor privatised. Quite the contrary: what is being negotiated is a lease of huge financial value to both the community...

[Daily Maverick] Harold Wolpe led his life from a moral code not just in rhetoric, but in his work and actions. This code was not borne out of greed and power, but from honesty, integrity and a deep-seated belief in equality - traits that seem largel...

[New Frame] The Jesuit Refugee Service's skills programme uplifts refugees, migrants and South African women by teaching them business skills and offering beauty and hairdressing courses.

[SAnews.gov.za] While the country has seen some promising signs of declining new COVID-19 cases compared to the previous week, the second wave continues to put a massive burden on the healthcare system.

[SAnews.gov.za] Eskom has suspended loadshedding as the generation capacity has improved following the return of some generators to service.

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa is showing signs of declining COVID-19 cases, with 9 010 new cases reported in the last 24 hours.

[Daily Maverick] The section 59 investigation panel launched by the Council for Medical Schemes in 2019, had to, once again, postpone the release of its interim report into allegations of racial discrimination by medical schemes and administrators in...

[GroundUp] A young woman from Mpumalanga has been caring for her three younger siblings as well as her son since their mother died in 2018.

[GroundUp] Covid-19 call-outs have replaced call-outs to trauma victims, say Cape Town paramedics interviewed by GroundUp.

[SAPS] Detectives in Nelson Mandela Bay District are appealing to the community to assist them in identifying and tracing the next of kin of three bodies found in separate incidents over the weekend and this morning.

[Daily Maverick] The growing spread of disinformation surrounding alleged links between Covid-19 and the rollout of the 5G in South Africa is becoming a persistent headache for government and cellular network providers, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal.

[Daily Maverick] South Africa has an estimated population approaching 60 million. To achieve herd immunity against COVID-19, the government recently set the ambitious goal of vaccinating 67% of the population - roughly 40 million people. According to...

[Daily Maverick] Programmatic marketing might be viewed as a spray-and-pray exercise, but advertising has such a pervasive wastage and fraud problem that it is eating chunks out of marketing budgets and skewing performance results - as Uber recently ...

[Govt of SA] Ministry and Department of Employment and Labour passes its condolences to the Nzimande family

[Govt of SA] South Africa and China to train public servants on governance and management of emergencies such as Covid-19

[Govt of SA] Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation statement on plans for the reopening of Post School Education and Training Institutions and the contribution of science and innovation in the fight against Covid-19

[SAnews.gov.za] Gauteng police have confirmed the arrest of three managers of popular restaurants in Sandton and Silverton for selling liquor to patrons, in contravention to the Disaster Management Act and COVID-19 level three lockdown regulations.

[GroundUp] "We are unanimous that the gravity of their misconduct demands that we impose a sanction," says Judicial Services Commission

[South Africa] Dear Fellow South African,

[Daily Maverick] It's just over a month since another wave of Covid-19 infections engulfed South Africa and already there is enough data to show this will overshadow the first. A breakdown of each province's data shows what they're now up against.

[Daily Maverick] Construction company WBHO caught between Canberra and the deep red sea

[Daily Maverick] In the South African landscape, pay TV channel SuperSport, a subsidiary of MultiChoice, has been the equivalent of BSkyB. There is no doubt that SuperSport has a monopoly on sports broadcasting in South Africa, just as there is no do...

[Daily Maverick] More than two-and-a-half years after a panel of independent experts charted a path for SAPS transformation, that report has yet to see the light of day. Instead, the securocrats' law and order 'kragdadigheid' rhetoric -- the Constitu...

[Daily Maverick] But it's not just pyramid schemes. Legitimate direct sellers have also seen their businesses grow.

[Daily Maverick] It is inconceivable that the industry could survive further intermittent bans on the sale of alcohol over the next three to five years - which would most likely be the case if government holds on to the belief that a ban is necessary...