Month: September 2024
News24 | PINs and pills: Are vending machines the answer to contraceptive stockouts at clinics?
Getting birth control pills and/or emergency contraception from vending machines could help girls and young women take charge of their sexual health and prevent unplanned pregnancies.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Ramaphosa asks Xi for better-balanced trade, as China pushes Africa to buy more of its goods
President Cyril Ramaphosa told China's Xi Jinping on Monday he wanted to narrow his country's trade deficit with Beijing, days before the Chinese leader is due to urge a summit of 50 African nations to buy more Chinese goods.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Chuffed’ SA bronze medallist Coetzee surprises herself with perfectly paced 1500m race
South Africa's latest Paralympics medallist, Louzanne Coetzee, surprised herself somewhat with a rather emphatic sub-4-minute, 40sec time in the T11 1 500m in Paris on Monday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Nick Hedley | What can be done about Cape Town’s rocketing housing prices
Buying or renting in Cape Town and its surrounds is out of reach unless you're rich, and the problem is only getting worse, says Nick Hedley.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Ramaphosa allows SIU to broaden probe into Eskom deals linked to Guptas, Koko
The Special Investigating Unit has been given the nod to investigate nine controversial Eskom contracts worth billions of rands, including deals with formerly Gupta-owned companies.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Corruption-accused former health dept official Popo Maja waiting for pension to pay his lawyers
The corruption trial of Popo Maja, the former director of communications at the Department of Health, has been delayed amid the finalisation of financial instructions to his defence team.
Continue ReadingNews24 | SA Rugby apologises to New Zealand for haka interference at Ellis Park: ‘In no way deliberate’
SA Rugby has written to the New Zealand Rugby Football Union to formally apologise for what has been widely regarded as a show of disrespect towards the All Blacks' performance of the haka at Ellis Park on Saturday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Silwerskerm 2024 | Brasse Vannie Kaap documentary: Heartfelt tribute to SA hip-hop legends
Brasse Vannie Kaap is a compelling documentary film about the iconic hip-hop group that exploded onto the music scene during the crucial early years of the new South Africa.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Oscar van Heerden | Elizabeth van der Heyden – one of our own, yet we treated her with such disdain
Activist Elizabeth van der Heyden was ignored and denied. Let us honour Aunty Betty with a posthumous Order of Luthuli, writes Oscar van Heerden.
Continue ReadingNews24 | After false start with Shoprite, FNB’s 99c bread offer is back on – now with a rival
From this month, FNB's 99c bread offer is back on, this time with Pick n Pay.
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