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This is why we banned cigarette sales: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma tells court
Minister of co-operative governance & traditional affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Image: Picture: SIMPHIWE NKWALI The overarching rationale behind temporarily banning the sale of tobacco products...
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Properly managed HIV patients ‘likely at no greater risk from COVID-19 than...
HIV-positive South Africans must ensure that they take their antiretroviral medication during the pandemic With one of the largest HIV-positive populations in the world, many experts have expressed...
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SA to pay R239m for Cuban doctors‚ Zweli Mkhize tells parliament
The Cuban doctors seconded to SA to help in the fight against Covid-19 will cost the state just over R239m‚ health minister Zweli Mkhize has revealed. Cuban health specialists arrived in SA on April...
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DA goes to court to save ‘thousands of livelihoods’ in beauty industry
Angela Khosa at her hair salon in Soweto. The DA says the blanket prohibition on the entire personal-care industry is irrational, arbitrary and ‘subject to the whims of some unidentified...
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Bad habits go up in smoke under lockdown
UP IN SMOKE: Many Nelson Mandela Bay residents have turned to vaping now that smoking has become too expensive under the lockdown rules.Image: Reuters She smoked for more than half her life, and while...
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Government Tweet claims alcohol, cigarettes ‘banned for rest of lockdown’
From The South African It’s either the most casual announcement of a major policy shift, or something’s gone wrong. Alcohol and cigarettes may now be banned ‘throughout lockdown’. Picture:...
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Government clarifies ‘incorrect’ tweet on sale of ciggie and booze ban during...
Timeslive UNATHI NKANJENI INCORRECT: Giving up smoking: close-up of the stripped cigarette The government has backtracked on an “incorrect” tweet regarding the ban on cigarettes and alcohol sales...
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‘Time waits for no man’, says Zweli Mkhize on adjusting health budget to...
Health minister Zweli Mkhize said the Covid-19 pandemic has motivated all SA health institutions to rethink, reorganise and reshape their priorities and agendas.Image: SOWETAN/ SIMPHIWE NKWALI The sum...
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Bhisho to fast track hiring of health workers
TOUGHEST TIME: Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane has given an update of the work being done to fight the Covid-19 pandemicImage: WERNER HILLS The government has embarked on a rapid recruitment drive...
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Breastfeeding & Covid-19: busting the myths
There has been an overload of fake news about Covid-19 over the past months, with one of the most damaging falsehoods being that Covid-19 positive moms can transmit the virus through breastmilk to...
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An appeal to the municipality
SEWAGE, A PET HATE: All around Ndlambe there are sewage spills and particularly around Port Alfred where the sewerage system appears unable to cope. In Station Hill, opposite the SPCA, the sewage has...
View ArticleWho will answer for Covid-19’s dark science?
10 MYTHS BUSTED by Brian Pottinger First published by BizNews on August 19 2020 Brian Pottinger, former publisher and editor of the Sunday Times, has been watching the global – and South African...
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Care for your health at Transcendence
Transcendence can be explained as moving above and beyond… through the mundane and ordinary into something more… the extraordinary. Mental and physical wellbeing are important factors and even more so...
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Sewage spills still an issue
AFTERMATH: The remnants of the most recent sewage spill on the corner of Main Street and Southwell Road Picture: ROB KNOWLES The above photograph was taken on Tuesday afternoon at the corner of Main...
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Donor registrations for bone marrow plummet in the Eastern Cape
Concerns about the second wave of Covid-19 infections have had a devastating effect on the SA Bone Marrow Registry’s (SABMR) ability to physically recruit new donors across the country, including the...
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Obesity: A problem in SA and worldwide
Report by Leigh Callipolitis – The PR SPACE March 2 is World Obesity Day Obesity is a disaster requiring urgent intervention in South Africa2. Alarmingly 800 million people around the world are...
View ArticleAll will be well at ‘the centre of the universe’
Get ready to relax and gain new skills and insights into how to handle life post-pandemic at the chilled Bathurst Wellness Weekend over the long weekend from March 20 to 22. The packed programme of...
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Men’s Health Month: Men implored to be circumcised amid increase in STIs
The Covid-19 lockdown has negatively affected South Africa’s medical circumcision programme and far fewer men have been circumcised in the past year than in previous years, health NGO Right to Care...
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Health portfolio committee calls for ‘vigorous’ discussion about police...
Parliament’s portfolio committee on health has called for “vigorous engagements and discussion” to address the issue of police officers entering hospitals with loaded firearms. Two patients and a...
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Dirty specs? Maybe not
This is the first in a series on eye care leading up to World Sight Day on 13 October 2022. Cataracts The lens in your eye must be clear in order to receive a sharply focused image. If it’s cloudy or...
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