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January 23, 2021

Outrage in S. Africa that apartheid-era ‘Dr Death’ still working

A South African hospital group is in the firing line after it emerged that a cardiologist dubbed “Dr Death”, who headed an apartheid-era chemical weapons programme, practises in its clinics. Doctor Wouter Basson, 70, once led a secret programme known…
January 22, 2021

Thales loses bid to challenge fraud charges over S.Africa arms deal

A South African court on Friday dismissed a bid by French aerospace and arms company Thales to challenge racketeering charges linked to a 1999 deal with ex-president Jacob Zuma, paving the way for a decade-old corruption trial to start next…
January 21, 2021

US resumes WHO support, launches $1.9 trillion virus plan

The United States on Thursday said it would resume its funding for the UN’s health agency as President Joe Biden shifts towards greater international cooperation in the fight against Covid-19, while also launching a $1.9 trillion plan to tackle the…
January 21, 2021

S.Africa to pay 2.5 times more than EU for virus vaccine

South Africa will buy doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine at a price 2.5 times higher than most European countries, the health ministry said Thursday. The continent’s worst virus-hit country has ordered at least 1.5 million shots of the vaccine from…
January 21, 2021

S.African minister and Ramaphosa ally dies of Covid

Jackson Mthembu, a minister and presidential advisor who was the public face of South Africa’s fight against Covid, has died from the virus, the presidency said Thursday. “It is with deep sorrow and shock that we announce that minister in…
January 20, 2021

Jihadist attacks in Mozambique fuelling aid crisis, says UN

Militant attacks in northern Mozambique have created a “worsening humanitarian crisis,” the United Nations said Wednesday, estimating that more than half a million people had now fled their homes. A shadowy jihadist group known as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama has wreaked…
January 19, 2021

Zambia copper mine settles villagers’ pollution claims

Zambia-based Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources, has agreed to settle claims brought by more than 2,500 villagers suing the mining conglomerate over pollution, the holding company and lawyers said Tuesday. The villagers filed a claim…
January 18, 2021

SAfrica virus strain more contagious, experts confirm

A new variant of the coronavirus first identified in South Africa is more contagious than earlier versions, experts said on Monday, but there is no evidence that it is more deadly. The new variant is 50 percent more contagious, said…
January 18, 2021

Interfaith prayers for S. African Covid patients, hospital staff

Muslims and Christians stand side by side, hands open to the sky or pressed together as they pray for coronavirus patients and healthcare workers in South Africa’s coastal city of Cape Town. Religious groups of all faiths and backgrounds have…

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