September 15, 2025
South Africa: The UN Had a Plan to Fight Deadly Lifestyle Diseases. Industry Pressure Killed Most Of It
At the United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting in New York next week, South Africa is expected to join other countries in signing a watered down… Read more »
July 15, 2025
South Africa: South Africa Gets R520 Million to Buy the Twice-a-Year Anti-HIV Jab - But There's a Snag
SA has accepted an offer of just over R520-million from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria to buy the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir. Research shows the… Read more »
June 30, 2025
South Africa: Professor Screw It, Let's Do It
Francois Venter, a big rock climber, once drank tequila with the PhD-holding virologist rockstar Dexter Holland of The Offspring and, more recently, publicly excoriated both the… Read more »
July 07, 2025
South Africa: Here's The Drinking Conversation We Need to Have
Telling most South Africans they can't drink is a nonstarter. But what we all do need to know is just how dangerous it is — and what we can do to curb it. Read more »
