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Children under the weight of suicidal ideation are at greater risk of going unnoticed because teachers are less able to identify adverse behavioural change in online classes. That observation comes in the wake of the hanging of Ackeem Williams, a...
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
White House tours will resume this month after a six-month suspension amid the coronavirus pandemic, the East Wing announced Tuesday.
By Miriam Mangwaya Talkmore Mawopa (36), who was on the run after he allegedly shoved his son (10) into a raging fire for alleged indiscipline, yesterday appeared in court facing charges of ill-treating the minor. Mawopa, of village 9 in Magamba, was not asked to plead when he appeared before magistrate Mitchell Panavanhu, but was remanded to October 14, 2020 for trial. He was denied bail on the basis that there was a possibility that he would interfere with his son, who is a witness in the matter. It is the State case that sometime last month, Mawopa went home drunk and entered the kitchen where his son, a Grade 3 pupil, was sleeping with his siblings. He then woke up the minor and started assaulting him with a sjambok for allegedly disobeying his stepmother. He then pushed the child into the fire, causing him serious injuries.
A critical mass of educators has been criticised for their knee-jerk resistance to a data-driven proposal for the reopening of schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Director of the Mona Geoinformatics Institute, Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr, said that he...
There are now more than over 400,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when. As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.
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Major African stats: June 30 at 7:00 GMT:
Confirmed cases = 432,421
Active cases = 214,627
Recoveries = 207,148
Number of deaths = 10,646
Countries in alphabetical order
Algeria – 14,657
Angola – 315
Benin – 1,199
Botswana – 227
Burkina Faso – 967
Burundi – 170
Cameroon – 12,592
Cape Verde – 1,301
Central African Republic – 3,788
Chad – 868
Comoros – 303
Congo-Brazzaville – 1,382
DR Congo – 7,189
Djibouti – 4,715
Egypt – 71,299
Equatorial Guinea – 3,071
Eritrea – 215
Eswatini – 873
Ethiopia – 5,846
Gabon – 5,513
(The) Gambia – 55
Ghana – 18,134
Guinea – 5,450
Guinea-Bissau – 1,654
Ivory Coast – 9,992
Kenya – 6,941
Lesotho – 35
Liberia – 819
Libya – 891
Madagascar – 2,403
Malawi – 1,342
Mali – 2,260
Mauritania – 4,606
Mauritius – 341
Morocco – 12,969
Mozambique – 918
Namibia – 293
Niger – 1,081
Nigeria- 27,110
Rwanda – 1,063
Sao Tome and Principe – 717
Senegal – 7,054
Seychelles – 81
Sierra Leone – 1,518
Somalia – 2,944
South Africa – 168,061
South Sudan – 2,021
Sudan – 9,663
Tanzania – 509
Togo – 667
Tunisia – 1,178
Uganda – 902
Zambia – 1,632
Zimbabwe – 617
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This usually means, if they have insurance, they must go to out-of-network facilities and often find themselves hit with exorbitant surprise medical bills.
Surprise medical bills are unanticipated costs related to out-of-network or emergency care a patient received.
Not surprisingly, Black Americans suffer from a higher rate of surprise medical bills, at higher costs compared to White Americans.
In a recent Congressional hearing, Dr. Rhea Boyd, a practicing physician and healthcare scholar said, “ensuring that insurance is not a barrier to healthcare is really critical, particularly for African Americans…”
Insurance companies make billions of dollars every year by using sly tactics like skinny networks to lure consumers in and then slap them with a surprise medical bill when they go out-of-network.
It is clear that Senator Lamar Alexander and Representatives Frank Pallone and Greg Walden, three of the members committed to eradicating surprise medical billing, are in the pockets of Big Insurance.
BY FREEMAN MAKOPA SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean actor Lerroy Gopal has disclosed that he had two breakthroughs in his career and learning from his mistakes made him a better actor. The renowned actor, who is now a household name in South Africa, said the church stood as the greatest influence for his venturing into acting. In 2000, Lerroy Gopal rose to fame in Zimbabwe after acting in the film entitled Yellow Card. He found greener pastures in South Africa in 2006 and 2007 for playing Thabang Ngema on the SABC3 soapie named One Way. He has also featured on Homecoming which is South Africa’s first Christmas movie, Roadblock, Seal team, Night Drive, Inconceivable, Ice, Revolt and Kite. He speaks to NewsDay Life & Style… Acting I have been acting in South Africa now for 19 years and it will be 20 years in January, I came out to study film and directing and ended up studying successful acting career here in Johannesburg after spending four years in film school and got married here and have kids and I run a small training business here where we do corporate training, communication and schools development training. Breakthroughs In my life I have experienced two breakthroughs with regard to acting and I think the first one is when I did Yellow Card and it was something really special and I was young and there were a lot of things I didn’t know and I made a lot of mistakes as a young person which made me to move to South Africa to start off again because also of lack of knowledge and spent four years in film school and flourished and did well. My other breakthrough came right after graduation, I got a slot in Backstage and there I started my acting career in South Africa. Influence My influence is church as we used to do skits and I learnt how to do puppetry and all kinds of things and people don’t know that I am a puppeteer. I loved the stage and at one time we did the show Singer directed by Roger Hawkins with my friend Takudzwa Chidavaenzi at 7 Arts theatre and it was packed with 1 500 people and that’s when I decided to do acting. No regrets I have featured in a lot of films, I have enjoyed doing a lot of Justin head films, I have done a lot of movies with him and the latest we have now is one called Roadblock. We also did a great thriller that went worldwide which is called Night Drive and did greatly around the world. I did with US actor Samuel L Jackson on the movie Kite. I also starred in a Canadian drama series called Ice and it was fantastic and the experiences were good and we also finished shooting a film called Homecoming which is due for release here in December. I also did Shaina which I am proud of because I enjoyed spending much time with upcoming and veteran actors. Film industry I feel the film industry has grown and it’s a business, If you do it right and invest in it you can live with it and take care of your family. It’s a dog-eat-dog industry and requires thick skin, but it's a nice industry. I think what excites me is being able to shift from one character to another. Two weeks ago I was farmer James
President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on Wednesday 11 November 2020. Here are the main points you need to be aware of.
