Frontline COVID-19 doctors this week have gone public saying they feel pressured to show COVID-19 as cause-of-death on certificates of patients suspected of having the virus when they also have had underlying medical conditions.

The Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) is recommending making a distinction between patients who have died as having Covid-19 present, Covid-19-related, or Covid-19 caused, as debate over why no other cause of death is registered on death certificates of people who die with other serious conditions besides the virus.

A psychiatrist’s analysis exposes how the government’s arguments include flawed estimates of how many SA smokers will get Covid-19, incorrect study references and false claims.

A leaked ANC document shows the foundation of prescribed assets and Cyril bangs the drum of an “economic reset”.

Kobe City General Medical Hospital study on a thousand blood samples: only 0,01% died of Covid. The prudence of scientists: do not let your guard down.

Pandemic Data Analysis (Panda) looked at the data around Covid 19 and lockdowns and have found the evidence wanting.

Here are some tips for caring for someone in your household who suspects they have coronavirus, is waiting for test results, or has confirmed they have coronavirus and is only showing mild symptoms:

ANC’s plans to eliminate private health care, loot private pensions will end autonomy of private and civil spheres and complete takeover by corrupt state

With heavy lockdown receding into the past there will need to be a frank evaluation of whether it worked. It may be possible to make a serious case that our lockdown delayed the spread of Covid-19, though I have not seen any such argument in South Africa.

We’re ten weeks into the world’s longest and most damaging lockdown, and still the folly continues. On the cold facts alone it has been a terrible, unforgivable mistake.

In an incredible turn of events, President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted that he has no empirical evidence to support the continued ban of cigarettes and other tobacco products under the current level 3 lockdown regulations.

IRR Deputy Head of Policy Research, Hermann Pretorius, talks about the IRR latest report, “The 10-Year Lockdown”. Listen as he explains how South Africa has effectively been in an effective 10-year policy lockdown, and how this has destroyed our economy and society.

PANDA’s Open Letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, Urging the Lockdown to Move to Level 1

Superspreader events, in which one person infects a disproportionately large number of others, are the primary means by which the coronavirus spreads, new preprint research suggests.

The South African economy, like many emerging and developing economies, has high levels of poverty. As with many such countries, there are three primary objectives to reducing poverty, unemployment and inequity. These three objectives take precedence over almost all other goals.

The South African Communist Party (SACP), which has long used its dominance over the African National Congress (ANC) to set the policy agenda for the ruling party, reiterated last week that it wants to ‘mobilise’ the ‘ample resources’ in both ‘public and private financial institutions’ to finance ‘sustainable recovery and development’ by introducing ‘investment requirements’ or ‘prescribed assets’.

Lobby group AfriForum has laid charges against the government at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights over “draconic regulations and the brutal enforcement of the lockdown to combat the Covid-19 pandemic”, as well as what they say is a racial agenda promoted with tourism relief funds.

A Public Health England (PHE) data review has established a significant relationship between weight-related comorbidities and COVID-19 mortality in the UK.

South Africa’s antitrust authorities have charged 28 international and local banks which now include Nedbank and Rand Merchant Bank for manipulating the rand exchange rate.

“You may wonder why I am telling you all of this. It is because, within the ANC, you have often become the lone voice of sanity and reason on matters relating to our economy”