Health minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, has announced that the second phase of the country's vaccination will begin on 17 May, as millions of doses of vaccine are set to land on South African shores over the next few weeks...
Kenya has started the first phase of its Covid-19 vaccination strategy. This was made possible by the delivery of just over one million AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived in two batches...
Catherine Kyobutungi 1 day ago
Inequalities in South Africa's healthcare system have been brought into sharper focus by the Covid-19 pandemic...
Uber's long-term partnership with Mastercard continues to grow with a new strategic initiative focusing on digital payments and advancing financial inclusions which will be facilitated by Mastercard across the Middle East and Africa (MEA)...
Issued by Uber 3 days ago
Facebook is launching a new campaign in partnership with the WHO called 'Together Against Covid-19 Misinformation'...
Although citizens of South Africa are currently granted access visa-free or with a visa on arrival to over 100 destinations around the globe, they need an approved visa to travel to the majority of countries and territories in Europe...
At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain the upper hand over SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19...
Salim Abdool Karim 6 Apr 2021
Ebola is back in Guinea in West Africa, five years after the largest Ebola epidemic ever known ended...
Connor Bamford 1 Apr 2021
The electronic vaccine data system (EVDS) allows South Africans to register online to receive their Covid-19 vaccination...
Jessie Taylor, Issued by Topco Media 1 Apr 2021
The National Treasury has chosen to retain the services of Vodacom, awarding the company with a new mobile communication services contract...
Many island economies are dependent on tourism and nowhere is this more apparent than in the Indian Ocean islands of the Maldives and the Seychelles...
South Africa has secured 30-million Johnson and Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 vaccines, the first batch of which will will be delivered in April...
It was, therefore, unfortunate that the minister of finance, Tito Mboweni, would premise his recent Budget Speech 2021 with 'hope' and, days later, South Africa was hit with a spate of power failures...
Dr Rudi Kimmie and Achmat Kazie, Issued by TSIBA 30 Mar 2021
Disputes over the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine have dominated the week, just as they have at various points over the past few months...
Rob Reddick 29 Mar 2021
The prospect of early Covid-19 vaccination is particularly attractive. However, the subject of compulsory vaccinations is argumentative and there are significant legal and moral facets that must be considered...
Persuade Makore, Issued by TR Brand Communications & Events 26 Mar 2021
India has stepped up its global ambitions and foreign policy re-engagement with African countries in recent years. Its bilateral trade increased from $7.bn in 2001 to $63bn in 2017/18...
Dan Banik & Renu Modik 26 Mar 2021
The South African Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has unanimously decided to leave the repo rate unchanged at 3.5%...
FCM's latest white paper has revealed that although New Zealand leads the way when it comes to domestic business travel recovery, South Africa claims second place in the race to recovery, reaching up to 25% of pre-Covid travel volumes...
There's hope that some industrialised countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against Covid-19 in the coming months...
Cyrus Sinai & Rob Fetter 23 Mar 2021
Scientists are predicting that the social gatherings associated with the Easter weekend will trigger the third wave of Covid-19, just as the country heads into winter. What are the lessons learned from the second wave?
The Covid-19 strain, known as the South African variant, that became dominant in the country towards the end of 2020 may have emerged from the coast of the Eastern Cape after the first wave of pandemic. ..
Together, Uber and Unesco aim to remove transportation as a barrier to accessing vaccinations for teachers around the world as and when governments allow local teachers to get vaccinated...
Jenna Delport 18 Mar 2021
Most developed countries are in the advanced stages of Covid-19 vaccination rollouts. But a large number of developing countries, including most across Africa, are still at the early stages, mainly due to a shortage of shots...
Benjamin Kagina 18 Mar 2021
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has approved the Section 21 application for Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine...
As countries across Africa roll out vaccines to combat the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, it is becoming increasingly evident that the continent is in desperate need of ICT systems and healthcare solutions that can support mass vaccination programmes...
Praba Moonsamy 17 Mar 2021
Last year gave the hospitality industry a nasty shock, but it also provided an opportunity to create a new environment in which our behaviours and decision-making can contribute to the evolution of better societies and more solidarity...
Tim Cordon 17 Mar 2021
Nigeria has started to vaccinate people after receiving its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines. Virologist and senior research fellow Dr Solomon Bakarey provides some insights on how the country should go about the rollout plan...
Solomon Bakarey 15 Mar 2021
Over the past year or so, we've all become familiar with a whole host of terms we knew nothing about at the start of 2020. Lockdown, rate of transmission, and social distancing all entered our collective vocabularies...
Bryan Turner 15 Mar 2021
The pandemic has exposed inequalities in society. There is concern that tying freedoms to vaccinations may further disadvantage vulnerable groups...
Yara M. Asi 15 Mar 2021
According to JLL's Hotels & Hospitality Group, Covid-19 is expected to impact the hotel sector in Sub-Saharan Africa in the long term with an increase in the number of transactions expected over the next few years...
Government remains committed to vaccinate 40 million people, as per the original plan, by the end of the year to help the country reach herd immunity...
There is no better platform to help get the vaccine to the people than the retail distribution networks, writes Smollan chief growth and innovation officer Michael Smollan...
Michael Smollan 10 Mar 2021
Dr Morgan Mkhatshwa, head of operations at Bonitas Medical Fund, unpacks the differences and similarities between 'flu' and Covid-19, how it affects your body and offers compelling reasons why you should consider getting the flu vaccine this year...
Issued by Bonitas 8 Mar 2021
Despite being subjected to the same involuntary stress test during Covid as men, women have shown a significant degree of resilience...
Issued by Ask Afrika 8 Mar 2021
With the arrival of vaccines in the country, Kenya is set to begin its Covid-19 vaccination roll-out...
Catherine Kyobutungi 8 Mar 2021
Friday, 5 March, marked the first anniversary of the first Covid-19 case identified in South Africa. How the world has changed since then...
Nicci Botha 5 Mar 2021
The good rains that have fallen over the last month in many areas of South Africa have caused ideal conditions for an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF)...
Issued by North-West University (NWU) 5 Mar 2021
The demand for Covid-19 vaccines has seen airlines tap into years of experience to transport pharmaceutical shipments, using cutting-edge technology to distribute vaccines safely
The vaccine rollout sites has been expanded to include 13 private hospitals as the Sisonke Programme gains momentum.
The Internet Service Providers' Association of SA says that the ongoing spectrum disputes don't need litigation, but something else...
The Covid-19 pandemic has again highlighted the challenges facing public procurement in South Africa...
Geo Quinot 3 Mar 2021
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) dismissed claims made by a pilots' association that the SAA flight transporting a consignment of Covid-19 vaccines was an unnecessary expensive exercise as untrue...
Here are a few ways you can put your hard-earned randelas to good use by helping your favourite musicians.
Tecla Ciolfi 1 Mar 2021
More than 67,000 health workers have been inoculated in the 10 days since the national Covid-19 vaccination kicked off...
In a webinar hosted by the BroadReach Group, global and African health experts came together to share challenges and solutions around mass Covid-19 immunisation across Africa...
Judging by the reaction of the markets and an initial strengthening of the rand, finance minister Tito Mboweni's budget went down well...
With widespread economic concern and severe constraints, Kantar has identified the three core strategies marketing teams should pursue to support their business's 'rebound and recovery' strategy...
Barbara Cador, Issued by Kantar 25 Feb 2021