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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansSouth Africa reacted with outrage to travel bans, first triggered by the UK, imposed on it in the wake of the news that its genomics surveillance team had detected a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africahas been monitoring changes in SARS-CoV-2 since the pandemic first broke out. ...
For many of us, the case for childhood vaccination seems self-evident. Every year, this powerful public health intervention protects billions of children from deadly and debilitating infections like polio and measles. Yet worldwide, many parents are reluctant – if not outright refusing – to vaccinate their children. This includes paren...
Southern Africa is popularly associated with sunshine. Does that make the region exceptionally suited to solar energy generation? With electricity shortages plaguing all parts of the sub-continent, a plentiful energy source that is becoming increasingly affordable to tap into seems like an ideal solution. Yet the rollout of solar po...
The South African media industry sailed through another grey wave of news headlines following the passing of two Young and promising lives. On Sunday South Africa’s were informed of the tragic passing of Kiernan Forbes “AKA” Forbes fiancée Ayanda “Nelli” Tembe. Tembe allegedly jumped from a hotel building in Cape Town.
Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone technologyand motor vehicles. It powers tools for agriculture and healthcare. But concerns have emerged about the accountability of AI and related technologies like machine learning. In December 2020 a compute...
I don’t believe this is the most efficient use of the vaccines. In a country like South Africa, we’d be much better off offering a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to the 65% of adults above the age of 65 who have been vaccinate...
The Democratic Alliance is set to meet with Facebook this has been formally confirmed by the Communications and Digital Technologies Committee. The meeting is set to take place on 25 May 2021. Similar invitations have been sent to other ...