Category: Coronavirus
Durban Tourism’s R16m funding: how Comrades Marathon was offered a mere R375,000, while booze parties get millions
Durban – Durban Tourism, the destination marketing wing of the ANC-run eThekwini municipality, has come under scrutiny after allegations that its R16 million funding model…
Groote Schuur Hospital clears backlog of 1,500 surgeries – here’s how they did it
Much of South Africa’s public health sector is plagued by long waiting times for surgery, a situation that was made much worse by the Covid-19…
‘Unconscionable’: Competition Commission says Red Roses Africa marked up hand sanitiser sold to the SAPS by 236%
Red Roses Africa (Pty) Ltd, a company that sold hand sanitiser to the SAPS for R515-million in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, has…
There’s a ‘gap between public and private health systems’: Ramaphosa
JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is concerned about the widening gap between public and private healthcare systems. He was addressing the Presidential Health…
All the bells and whistles — fourth-generation Nissan X-trail is a compelling modern family vehicle
Towards the end of the first year of the Covid-19 lockdown, in 2020, I began to seriously lose the plot. After trying to bake, crochet,…
The emerging food barons – what’s up with the soaring prices in SA and the UK?
Food inflation remains on a worrying upward trajectory, with SA and UK food inflation running at about double the rate of their headline inflation rates….
Licence renewal services by big retailers leave small businesses in the dark
Lester Kiewit interviews Carl Fernandes of CF Licensing. More retail chains are offering their shoppers facilities to renew their vehicle licence as a means to…
No cars, no jobs – Chinese auto industry venture in Gqeberha shows little activity seven years after launch
Close economic and political ties have triumphed over national interests, business ethics and proper investment protocols as the South African government continues to keep mum…
Pope taken to hospital with respiratory infection
Pope Francis has been told to stay in hospital for a few days for treatment after doctors diagnosed a respiratory infection, the Vatican announced on…
India: What’s behind the spike in COVID cases?
India has seen an increase in the number of daily new COVID-19 cases over the past few days, with virologists and epidemiologists saying that a…