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Claire Keeton is a features writer who has earned awards for her HIV and mental health coverage, and has reported on Covid, including as a vaccine trial volunteer and from inside a Covid ICU. She has spent 30 years exploring SA and been to more than 60 countries reporting on human rights, civil conflicts and environmental threats, as well as doing adventure travel
“I want to fix the state so that it is working for the most vulnerable people in society.”
Chanting and singing, hundreds of climate activists spanning more than a city block marched in Cape Town on Thursday to parliament, waving posters and banners with their demands for change.
Forestry, fisheries and environment minister Barbara Creecy said on Friday that 9,789MW of renewable energy applications are in the department’s hands.
The Gift of the Givers has engaged the captors of paramedic Gerco van Deventer, who has been held hostage in Mali since November 3 2017, said director Dr Imtiaz Sooliman on the return of their negotiator this week to South Africa.
Two of 12 cheetahs to be flown from South Africa to India in an ambitious transnational relocation project were darted early on Friday at Rooiberg veterinary facility in Limpopo.
The world is a step closer to fairly sharing natural resources following the UN global biodiversity summit, which ended in Montreal, Canada, this week.
The biggest achievement was the 11th-hour global agreement to set up a loss and damage fund to assist countries hardest hit by the climate crisis, said environment minister Barbara Creecy after COP27.
South Africa’s just energy transition plan — to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and pursue low-carbon renewable sources of energy while protecting jobs — has been well received at the COP27 summit, forestry, fisheries and environmental…
A small amount of exercise — as little as half an hour of moderate physical activity, 5,000 steps or one gym visit a week — reduces the risk of women developing depression, a new study has found.
“It’s been three years and I’m free,” says Sean Davison, the right-to-die activist whose three-year house arrest ended on Monday morning with him signing documents at the Cape Town high court.
Johannesburg paraglider and climber Pierre Carter became the first person to legally fly off Mount Everest in Nepal this week and the second solo pilot ever to do this.
Pfizer vaccines protect against the Omicron variant of Covid-19, with two doses offering 70% protection against severe disease and admission to hospital, a large real-world study by Discovery Health and the SA Medical Research Council…
The risk of dying from Covid-19 is 20 times higher among people who are not vaccinated than those who had the double dose Pfizer vaccine, a new study by Discovery Health shows.
SA’s third wave of Covid-19 infections is dragging on longer than expected and behaving differently from the first and second waves, health minister Joe Phaahla said on Friday.
The enthusiasm among younger South Africans to be vaccinated has driven the daily numbers up, with average daily vaccinations topping 240,000 this week, health minister Dr Joe Phaahla said on Friday.
