Unpredictability of Covid-19 meant health workers were caught off-guard by sudden deaths and did not always prepare families for the news, study suggests.

The education department says nearly 70,000 students don’t qualify for NSFAS because their household income is above R350,000.

The tax works out to about 10% of the cost of sugary drinks

Hot in the heels of unemployed doctors’ march to KZN offices, a Western Cape cohort highlights austerity that ‘could be catastrophic’

Leading doctors and academics say it is important that ‘medically assisted dying is patient-initiated and patient-driven’

The festival attracted about 30,000 people each year and was one of the biggest and most popular jazz festivals in the world

Research examined how environmental exposure influenced inflammatory response in children

Blacks experience greater hurdles than whites as 70% of cancer specialists in the public sector are white and hindered by language barriers, says report

Stellenbosch University PhD graduate’s study has found families without an income that care for a disabled child, can barely survive on the state grant

Partnership will allow research teams to share resources and ideas to monitor waterborne diseases and viruses that have pandemic potential