The COVAX initiative is one of three potential strategies to access vaccines. The South African Medical Association (SAMA) urges the National Department of Health (NDoH) to urgently explore all options to ensure that health care workers and those most at risk of severe outcomes from…
The South African Medical Association (SAMA) welcomes the appointment of Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi as the new MEC for Health in Gauteng, and that it will provide any support it can to make her tenure successful. Dr Mokgethi was announced as the new MEC after a…
Essential that all Community Services are placed – SAMA All Community Service doctors in South Africa must find placement and the fact that more than 175 have not for 2021 is unacceptable. This is the view of the South African Medical Association (SAMA) which was…
Port Health Services has been conducting screening at domestic departures following the reopening of domestic travel at the international airports. Domestic travel resumed when the country entered alert level 3 of the current COVID-19 pandemic. To date the country has entered alert level 1 of…
Central Firearm Registry (CFR) is working tirelessly to address firearm licence backlog resulting from Covid-19 Pretoria: 27 August 2020 - The South African Police Service management wants to reassure firearm licence applicants that the CFR is attending to licencing backlogs which resulted from the Covid-19…
Tennis SA launches third edition of BNP Paribas Coaches Mentorship Programme Pretoria, South Africa, 08 June 2020 - Tennis South Africa (TSA) and BNP Paribas today announced the continued sponsorship of the third annual BNP Paribas Coaches Mentorship Programme, which aims to widen the diversity…
AngloGold Ashanti confirms that, following the detection of its first positive COVID-19 case at its Mponeng Mine last week, a comprehensive screening, contact tracing and testing programme has revealed several cases at the site in Merafong, in Gauteng Province. AngloGold Ashanti conducted 650 tests since…
The Smithsonian Science Education Center, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)—a partnership of 140 national academies of science, engineering and medicine—has developed “COVID-19! How can I protect myself and others?,” a new rapid-response guide for youth ages 8–17.…
Skokkende bewerings van wydverspreide korrupsie onder die dekmantel van die COVID-19-pandemie kom toenemend onder die aandag van die VF Plus en die party is bekommerd oor die stroping van die rampfonds en die staatskoffers wat in die afsienbare toekoms ʼn groter krisis kan raak as…
Die VF Plus het die waarnemende Gautengse LUR vir maatskaplike ontwikkeling, Panyaza Lesufi, dringend versoek om in te gryp na die onwettige sluiting van ‘n skuiling vir haweloses en sopkombuis in Krugersdorp wat daagliks meer as 1 000 honger mense voed. Die Wes-Randse distriksmunisipaliteit het…