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Virgin Atlantic Airlines will resume scheduled passenger flights to South Africa later this month.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
Gauteng accounts for 64% of new positive Covid-19 cases as the country records 11 767 new cases.
Aspen Pharmacare is working to ensure it can manage demand for a generic anti-inflammatory drug that was shown to improve survival in Covid-19 patients.
Africa’s biggest drug maker has set up a team to assess how much of the 60-year-old drug dexamethasone it can supply and by when, CEO Stephen Saad said on Wednesday.
‘Moving target’
Aspen needs to be able to assess the genuine demand so it can decide whether to dedicate a greater proportion of manufacturing to this drug versus others, Saad said.
Aspen is one of several companies to make the generic drug, which UK officials said will cost less than US$6 for a course of treatment.
The Oxford researchers said the drug may help coronavirus patients cope with a powerful overreaction of the immune system.
The first three surveys received between 5 500 and 9 365 responses, while the latest poll registered 5 293 responses, reflecting responses from around 23% of schools nationally, the unions said.
Although the Department of Basic Education (DBE), led by minister Angie Motshekga and her director general Mathanzima Mweli, has been adamant all was in good order for the reopening of schools – and Covid-19 protocols would be followed with models in place to ensure there was no more than 50% of pupils on school premises – the unions' survey suggests teachers were still facing serious challenges at many schools.
\"In only two provinces have more than 80% of schools been able to construct a timetable for when the next grades return that allows a 1.5 metre distance between learners in classrooms,\" read the results report.
The report states: \"In 8 provinces, less than 54% of schools have subject teams or phase teams been able to meet and review the curriculum guidance received from national and province for the returning grades.
\"In 8 provinces, less than 48% of schools have all subject teams or phase teams planned their teaching for the returning grades in terms of the curriculum guidance received for the returning grades.\"
Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation David Mahlobo received a positive COVID-19 test result on Thursday 7 January 2021.
English-speaking Caribbean nations lose up to $4.2 billion a year in revenue, which is about 5.7% of GDP, due to anti-LGBTQ+ laws, according to a new report. The report put together by Virgin Atlantic and Open for Business (OFB), a coalition of companies advocating for LGBTQ equity, noted that the region’s tourism sector loses close...
The South African government will pay more than R239 million in salaries for the 187 members of the Cuban medical brigade, who, according to Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize, are specialists in areas in which South Africa has shortages.
\"To date, the Republic of Cuba has availed 187 medical specialists, who will be assisting South Africa in the response to Covid-19,\" reads Mkhize's response.
READ | Eastern Cape hotspots to be zoned in on as Mkhize turns attention to 'vulnerable' province
The government also shelled out R734 100 for the brigade's registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), but this will be recovered.
However, as per the Government-to-Government Agreement, the South African [government] pays the fee to the HPCSA and, thereafter, deduct the full amount of registration from the individual health professionals' first salary.
This means there is no actual cost to be incurred by the South African government, however, it is a convenient process arranged to ensure that all of the professionals are registered accordingly,\" Mkhize's answer explained.
Earlier in June 2001, the International Crisis Group (ICG) released a report titled \"International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Delayed Justice,\" implicating government officials in the hiding of Mr Kabuga.
But the 2001 ICG report said that ICTR investigators had traced Kabuga to several residences in Kenya, in Nairobi, Nakuru and Eldoret, some of which belonged to a close relative of President Moi.
Court documents in Kenya and the ICTR that was based in Arusha, revealed that Mr Kabuga's business empire in Kenya went back to 1995 when he established an import-export business called Nshikabem Agency.
Mr Kabuga's businesses in Kenya included the Kenya Trust Company Ltd (KTC Ltd) that owned Spanish Villas on Nairobi's Lenana Road; a transport business between Mombasa and Rwanda, as well as matatu businesses in Nairobi.
Later in 2008, Mr Wako, due to international pressure, initiated a case seeking court orders to stop Kenya Trust Company Ltd (KTC Ltd) from selling Spanish Villas property until the ICTR case against Mr Kabuga was concluded.
A beautiful new short film, narrated by rugby superstar, Tendai ‘The Beast’ Mtawarira, is released as hardships continue across the continent in the face of Covid-19, writes James Elder.
Every year since 1991, the Day of the African Child has been commemorated in memory of the young activists who were killed during the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa.
On this day, Africa Strong seeks to commend their courage and reflect on the challenges that young people still face today.
Consider these few facts from across Eastern and Southern Africa:
Ethiopia – a country of 100 million people - completed a door-to-door survey of its capital in just three weeks.
- James Elder is UNICEF’s head of communication for Eastern and Southern Africa.
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Google kicked off the Wear A Mask, Save Lives doodle on Tuesday to "reinforce the message that wearing masks can save lives, in the midst of a resurgence of COVID-19 cases across the globe'.
President Cyril Ramaphosa was inoculated on Wednesday along with health workers in Khayelitsha, western Cape province
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As Africa marks six months since the first case of Covid-19 was detected, WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr Matshidiso Moeti went beyond speaking of the more than one million active cases and the 24,278 people who have died of the pandemic.
In the last few decades, millions of unskilled workers from South Asia have migrated to Gulf countries due to limited opportunities at home.
In 2019, migrant workers from South Asian countries sent back $122 billion to their home countries, according to the World Bank.
The steep fall in oil prices slashes major source of revenues for the energy-rich Gulf states, a favorite destination of South Asia’s migrant workers.
Amnesty International reports that about 23 million migrant workers living in the Middle East have had their work hours cut short and lost their jobs, reducing their ability to send home money to families dependent on remittances.
This recent fall in remittances is the sharpest in recent history, World Bank projections show, adversely affecting millions of vulnerable unskilled workers.
Desmond Tutu , in full Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born October 7, 1931, Klerksdorp, South Africa), South African Anglican cleric who in 1984 received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa.
Tutu was born of Xhosa and Tswana parents and was educated in South African mission schools at which his father taught. Though he wanted a medical career, Tutu was unable to afford training and instead became a schoolteacher in 1955. He resigned his post in 1957. He then attended St. Peter’s Theological College in Johannesburg and was ordained an Anglican priest in 1961. In 1962 he moved to London, where in 1966 he obtained an M.A. from King’s College London. From 1972 to 1975 he served as an associate director for the World Council of Churches. He was appointed dean of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Johannesburg in 1975, the first black South African to hold that position. From 1976 to 1978 Tutu served as bishop of Lesotho.
In 1978 Tutu accepted an appointment as the general secretary of the South African Council of Churches and became a leading spokesperson for the rights of black South Africans. During the 1980s he played an unrivaled role in drawing national and international attention to the iniquities of apartheid. He emphasized nonviolent means of protest and encouraged the application of economic pressure by countries dealing with South Africa. The award of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Peace to Tutu sent a significant message to South African Pres. P.W. Botha’s administration. In 1985, at the height of the township rebellions in South Africa, Tutu was installed as Johannesburg’s first black Anglican bishop, and in 1986 he was elected the first black archbishop of Cape Town, thus becoming the primate of South Africa’s 1.6 million-member Anglican church. In 1988 Tutu took a position as chancellor of the University of the Western Cape in Bellville, South Africa.
During South Africa’s moves toward democracy in the early 1990s, Tutu propagated the idea of South Africa as “the Rainbow
In six of the last 17 days, South Africa has failed to register a single vaccine dose - and the drive to jab the population has stalled yet again.
[Nation] A planned online auction of premium arabica coffee has excited farmers in Kiambu, Murang'a and Nyeri counties, with six farms already submitting their lots for the Singapore virtual sale on October 1.
