South Africans must choose between life and “sickness or death” as the country faces a devastating second wave of Covid-19 infections, health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday. Speaking during a webinar, Mkhize said: “If we choose…
Controversial businessman Edwin Sodi was grilled on Tuesday about several payments his company made to prominent ANC figures. Sodi, the director of Blackhead Consulting, which got most of its business from the departments of human…
Out of the more than 15,000 Covid-19 fatalities in SA to date, at least 257 have been health-care workers. Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Tuesday evening that a total of 15,641 patients had succumbed to the virus. The cumulative…
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Sunday evening answered questions from the public related to Covid-19 in a live broadcast by Newzroom Afrika. Below are some the highlights during the question and answer session. On children going back to…
Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize voiced concern on Friday that 80% of the country’s health-care workers who had contracted Covid-19 were based in the Western Cape. This, he said, raised the question of bringing extra support into the…
Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has detailed measures on how the government will identify Covid-19 hotspots in the country. This will be part of the country’s district-level lockdown as it moves to level 3. The hotspots include Tshwane,…
Eastern Cape’s Convid-19 cases soared to 174 , health minister Zweli Mkhize announced on Tuesday. The total number of confirmed cases nationally was 2,415. The total number of tests conducted to date is 87,022. There are now 78 confirmed…
The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases has now increased from 24 to 38. The 14 new cases have been confirmed in Gauteng, Western Cape and Kwazulu Natal. GAUTENG: 7 A 76 year old male who had travelled to the UK and the US. A…
