While the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape has chosen to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic head-on, and to secure its own supply of Covid-19 vaccines, the African National Congress (ANC) is once again clinging to outdated thinking.
President Cyril Ramaphosa should own up to his own government’s incompetence and recognise that the root of the disaster is the ANC’s obsession with state control
The SACP/ANC alliance has long wanted a wealth tax to help ‘discipline’ capital and advance the Freedom Charter’s goal of ‘sharing’ the country’s wealth.
When South Africans finally get access to a vaccine (who knows when), you have a right to refuse it. But that doesn’t mean refusing is either clever or morally justifiable.
A peer review of the paper on which most Covid testing is based has comprehensively debunked the science behind it, finding major flaws.
External peer review – RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at molecular and methodological level: causes false positive results.
The liquor industry is calling on government to provide some relief when it comes to specific taxes this year.
Breaking news on Tuesday evening was that President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa of Portugal had tested positive for Covid-19.
Two appeal court judges in Lisbon are at risk of being ‘disciplined’ for a 34-page ruling in which they justified their reasons for releasing four German tourists from confinement in the Azores
Humanitarian crises threatened to break out at South Africa’s busiest land border posts over the festive season
Nicholas Lorimer asks John Endres and Hermann Pretorius for their views on the SASSA grants disaster, the shortage of doctors in Gauteng and the bankruptcy of the Amathole municipality.
We are very appreciative of Scott and Rock Island Counties’ Health Departments’ participation. I disagree with Dr. Katz referring to our questions concerning cycle thresholds in PCR testing as “trivial.”
It’s been a year since the WHO notified the world about a ‘pneumonia of unknown cause’ discovered in China. Given that its primary purpose was to combat contagious diseases, it has fared poorly
Western Cape members of the SA Guild of Motoring Journalists rose to the challenge from Mitsubishi Motors South Africa to help collect books for the JOE lil’brary charity.
There has been an outcry over the government’s handling of vaccination against Covid-19. And it is well-justified!
Globally, Covid-19 with its economic implications demands government competence, while people want to hear from maligned experts and objective media.
The Edelman Trust Barometer indicates citizens’ trust. South Africa is bottoming on the 2020 list, ranking worst for trust in the ANC government in the world.
The private medical health scheme announced last month that it will fund a COVID-19 vaccine for two million of its members
Why is the vaccine roll-out plan quickly cobbled together by health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize so very scant on details and ambiguous on timelines?
The World Health Organization said that China has blocked the arrival of a team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in a rare rebuke from the UN agency.
