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How to build a travel bucket list in the age of Covid-19

How to build a travel bucket list in the age of Covid-19

18 Jan 2021

South Africa’s Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize (centre). The government has been criticised for not having an actionable plan on vaccines. Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images

South Africa failed to get its act together on vaccines: here's how

Shabir A Madhi 18 Jan 2021

Are SA employers allowed to implement a compulsory Covid-19 vaccine policy? - Part 1

Are SA employers allowed to implement a compulsory Covid-19 vaccine policy? - Part 1

Jason Whyte 15 Jan 2021

Mzwandile Nzimande aka DJ1D dies after testing positive for Covid-19

Mzwandile Nzimande aka DJ1D dies after testing positive for Covid-19

15 Jan 2021

Medicines are only approved for use by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority when there is sufficient evidence that their benefits outweigh their risks.

Ivermectin and Covid-19: Why it's promising but why we need to be cautious

Rufaro Samanga 15 Jan 2021

Nurses in the isolation unit at Tygerberg Hospital in the Western Cape. Misha Jordaan/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Making a hospital space feel psychologically safer helped South African health workers

Hamieda Parker 15 Jan 2021

How Covid-19 has forced businesses to re-evaluate cleaning regimes, waste management

How Covid-19 has forced businesses to re-evaluate cleaning regimes, waste management

14 Jan 2021

This graph published by the MRC shows how much worse the second Covid-19 surge is than the first one that peaked in July.

Record number of South Africans died in first week of 2021

James Stent and Nathan Geffen 14 Jan 2021

#BizTrends2021: Covid and the evolution of loungewear

#BizTrends2021: Covid and the evolution of loungewear

Nicola Cooper 13 Jan 2021

Muizenberg beach is eerily quiet on a hot summer’s day, 29 December 2020. If we want to save lives and life to go back to normal we need to embrace vaccines.

Here's how to fight anti-vaccine propaganda

GroundUp Editors 13 Jan 2021

Alcohol industry seeks deferment of excise duties until sales ban lifts

Alcohol industry seeks deferment of excise duties until sales ban lifts

12 Jan 2021

MTN rewards users with 1GB of data for downloading Covid-19 Alert app

MTN rewards users with 1GB of data for downloading Covid-19 Alert app

12 Jan 2021

OxERA oxygen supply device

Innovation bridges oxygen supply gap for Covid-19 patients

12 Jan 2021

President Cyril Ramaphosa

SA to remain on Adjusted Alert Level 3 for another month

12 Jan 2021

Big Concerts, The Entertainment Group partner with Health Passport Europe in aim to safely reopen SA's events industry

Big Concerts, The Entertainment Group partner with Health Passport Europe in aim to safely reopen SA's events industry

11 Jan 2021

A market place in Ghana’s capital Accra. Developing countries like Ghana risk being left behind in the race to secure Covid-19 vaccines. Christian Thompson/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Dummy's guide to how trade rules affect access to Covid-19 vaccines

Caroline Southey 11 Jan 2021

Covid-19 conspiracy theorists burn and destroy 5G towers in KZN

Covid-19 conspiracy theorists burn and destroy 5G towers in KZN

8 Jan 2021

Extended alcohol ban pushes craft brewers to the brink of closure

Extended alcohol ban pushes craft brewers to the brink of closure

8 Jan 2021

First 1-million Covid-19 vaccine doses will arrive this month

First 1-million Covid-19 vaccine doses will arrive this month

8 Jan 2021

Professor Alex van den Heever, chair, Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies at the Wits School of Governance.

The South African health system after Covid-19

Alex van den Heever 7 Jan 2021

SAB to challenge third alcohol ban in court

SAB to challenge third alcohol ban in court

7 Jan 2021

Liquor traders, taverners plead for off-premise sales

Liquor traders, taverners plead for off-premise sales

6 Jan 2021

Richard dos Santos

#BizTrends2021: 2021 holds supply chain profession's greatest endeavour ever

Richard dos Santos 6 Jan 2021

#BizTrends2021: Advertising and Covid-19

#BizTrends2021: Advertising and Covid-19

Sibusiso Sitole 6 Jan 2021

There are at least three Covid-19 vaccines that have been approved by reputable health regulatory organisations around the world and many countries have begun rolling out vaccines, but not South Africa. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

Health workers demand vaccine rollout

GroundUp staff 5 Jan 2021

Baba Tjeko, Lauren Colin Mitchell's 'wet paint' social distance benches donated to the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens

Baba Tjeko, Lauren Colin Mitchell's 'wet paint' social distance benches donated to the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens

4 Jan 2021

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SA hospitality, tourism industry calls on government to fast track vaccine deployment

4 Jan 2021

Ports of entry ready for travellers returning to SA

Ports of entry ready for travellers returning to SA

4 Jan 2021

Health minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize

Mkhize's wishlist: Covid-19 vaccine rollout in February

4 Jan 2021

KKNK postpones 2021 festival in light of Covid-19

KKNK postpones 2021 festival in light of Covid-19

4 Jan 2021

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