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Literacy crisis deepening in South Africa, says new report

Education

Literacy crisis deepening in South Africa, says new report

James Stent 8 Feb 2023

Marketing & Media

Ithuba campaign raises troubling questions for Twitter

James Stent and Nathan Geffen 26 Aug 2022

Access gates installed by Siyangena at Cape Town Station never worked. Archive photo: Kim Reynolds / GroundUp

Legal

Doubts over Prasa's commitment to uphold High Court corruption judgment

James Stent 18 Jul 2022

Healthcare

Scientists sound alarm on badly run medical studies

James Stent 13 Jun 2022

Source: Kate Holt/Sightsavers (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Healthcare

Ivermectin sent back to the worms by medicines regulator

James Stent 31 May 2022

Siyangena Technologies has appealed against a Pretoria High Court judgment setting aside contracts to supply security infrastructure to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa. Archive photo: Kim Reynolds/GroundUp

Legal

Prasa dropped by lawyers as billion-rand corruption deal appeal looms

James Stent 9 Feb 2022

Sister Zoliswa Gidi-Dyosi, a registered nurse and midwife, receives her Covid-19 vaccine at the Khayelitsha Hospital, Cape Town, in February 2021. Archive photo: Jeffrey Abrahams

Healthcare

How hesitant are South Africans about getting vaccinated?

James Stent 24 Aug 2021

Groote Schuur is one of South Africa’s biggest teaching hospitals. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Healthcare

Covid-19: A glimpse behind the scenes at Groote Schuur Hospital

James Stent 12 Aug 2021

Nurses Maxine MacNamara (left), Clare Wepener, and Nicky Krynauw, who work at Life Healthcare’s Vincent Pallotti Hospital in Pinelands. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks

Healthcare

What it's like being a nurse during a pandemic

James Stent & Mary-Anne Gontsana 2 Jun 2021

Railway regulator CEO and board at war with each other

Legal

Railway regulator CEO and board at war with each other

James Stent 6 Apr 2021

Primedia beats Prasa in decade-long court case

Legal

Primedia beats Prasa in decade-long court case

James Stent 1 Apr 2021

R45m victory for Prasa

Legal

R45m victory for Prasa

James Stent 12 Feb 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused some 85,000 deaths among South Africans over 60. Image: NIAID-RML (CC BY 2.0)

Healthcare

Nearly 85,000 older South Africans have probably died from Covid-19

James Stent 26 Jan 2021

Leading scientists speculate that vaccines will help us get to a point where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, will be just another common cold. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Healthcare

Will vaccines eradicate SARS-CoV-2?

James Stent 18 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.

Healthcare

Record number of South Africans died in first week of 2021

James Stent and Nathan Geffen 14 Jan 2021

Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands

Healthcare

Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands

James Stent 22 Dec 2020

A graphic of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Image by Hanna Vega Yinon M Bar-On, Avi Flamholz, Rob Phillips, and Ron Milo via Wikimedia, published in Cell Biology by the Numbers (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Healthcare

#Covid19: Blood tests to be conducted on 19,000 people in nine provinces

James Stent 11 Dec 2020

Judges in shack demolition case fail to reach agreement

Legal

Judges in shack demolition case fail to reach agreement

James Stent 4 Dec 2020

Surveys to find out how many people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 are underway. Free image via Pixabay

Healthcare

New surveys may shed light on SA's Covid epidemic

James Stent 4 Dec 2020

About 70% of South Africans with HIV are on antiretroviral treatment.

Healthcare

South Africa has the best HIV policies, report finds

James Stent 3 Dec 2020

To suppress the Covid-19 pandemic, tens of millions of South Africans would have to be vaccinated. Nothing at that scale has been done here before. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

Healthcare

Vaccinating tens of millions of people will be very difficult

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 27 Nov 2020

Some of the researchers in the study are based at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Healthcare

High death rate in African Covid-19 intensive care units

James Stent 20 Nov 2020

Judge in Woodstock eviction case concerned about 'spatial apartheid'

Property

Judge in Woodstock eviction case concerned about 'spatial apartheid'

James Stent 19 Nov 2020

Judge Makhubele is suspended ... but still hearing cases

Legal

Judge Makhubele is suspended ... but still hearing cases

James Stent 12 Nov 2020

Scathing judgment against Department of Social Development

Legal

Scathing judgment against Department of Social Development

James Stent 2 Oct 2020

This is the HIV combination treatment pill of choice (though this is only one of several brands) for newly diagnosed HIV patients in South Africa. The regimen has proven very effective at suppressing HIV, and patients tolerate it well, but it is associated with obesity in women.

Healthcare

Weight gain worries for newer HIV treatment regimens

James Stent 2 Oct 2020

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19 (round blue objects), emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. Image by the US NIAID (CC BY 2.0)

Healthcare

How Western Cape will check for a future Covid-19 surge

James Stent 7 Sep 2020

No evictions or demolitions without a court order, judges rule

Legal

No evictions or demolitions without a court order, judges rule

James Stent 27 Aug 2020

'Anti-social behaviour' could soon disqualify some from CoCT rental units

Property

'Anti-social behaviour' could soon disqualify some from CoCT rental units

Mary-Anne Gontsana and James Stent 10 Jul 2020

Community Chest houses homeless group in its office for winter

ESG & Sustainability

Community Chest houses homeless group in its office for winter

Lucas Nowicki and James Stent 22 Jun 2020

CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-PCR Diagnostic Panel. Photo: United States Centers for Disease Control via Wikimedia (public domain)

Healthcare

Covid-19: Why "test, test, test" is easier said than done

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 18 Mar 2020

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