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Former public works minister Sihle Zikalala downplayed the findings of an investigation he had commissioned, paving the way for Tebogo Malaka’s appointment as chief executive of the Independent Development Trust (IDT) despite her involvement in a R45-million lease scandal.
Documents obtained by amaBhungane suggest that former public works and infrastructure minister Sihle Zikalala and his close comrade, then-Independent Development Trust (IDT) chair advocate Kwazi Mshengu, mounted parallel efforts to shield the parastatal’s chief executive from investigations into a R45-million lease scandal.
How does ADHD medicine work and what can — and can’t — it do? The medication is often abused by university students wanting to cram during exams. But, as psychiatrist Renata Schoeman tells Mia Malan, ADHD meds don’t work for people without the condition.
A KwaZulu-Natal traditional leader has survived an attempt on his life following a shooting in eZinqoleni in the Ray Nkonyeni Local Municipality.This is the second such attack in two months, with a traditional leader killed at his Durban home last month.
Former Stellenbosch University student Theuns du Toit, who caused uproar three years ago when he urinated on the belongings of another student, was found not guilty of two criminal charges in the Stellenbosch Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
Despite facing the prospect of online abuse, prominent South African influencers are using one of the country’s most defining cultural characteristics to push back against false white genocide claims: a shared national sense of humour.
The impact of US President Donald Trump administration’s slashing of over half of South Africa’s HIV and TB projects, transcends reduced access to HIV testing and HIV prevention and treatment drugs: treatment for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) will become harder to come by too.
Describing his visit to the US last week as a success, President Cyril Ramaphosa said his US counterpart Donald Trump “agreed that the US should continue playing a key role in the G20, including attending the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg later this year”.
Of the 157 000 children living with HIV in South Africa, around one in three are not getting the medicines they need to stay healthy. That is according to recent estimates from Thembisa, the leading mathematical model of HIV in South Africa.
About 40% of the health workers who collected data in the country’s HIV hotspots either lost their jobs in February or will be jobless in September, leaving a massive knowledge gap in their wake. Experts warn not knowing what we don’t know is dangerous.