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Health minister Joe Phaahla. (Photo by Leila Dougan/Daily Maverick/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
AFRIFORUM

DA, AfriForum again reject health Act amendments ahead of minister’s briefing

Members of the public have until 15 April to comment on the proposed draft regulations.

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read
South Africa’s first paediatric vaccine trial participant received the first shot of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
BETA VARIANT

Vaccination rate ramps up and registration for people aged 35 to 49 to open

More than 191 000 people were vaccinated on Thursday the daily target for next week is 250 00, says the health department

  • Charma du Plessis
2 min read
The Mail & Guardian previously reported that Mkhize is understood to be preparing to resign from office over the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe into the irregular awarding of a R150-million Covid-19 communications tender to his long-term associates. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION

Two women punted as frontrunners to replace Mkhize

Ramaphosa is said to be considering appointing former Gauteng health MEC Dr Gwen Ramokgopa or Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the minister of health

  • Lizeka Tandwa
3 min read
Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize. (Photo Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN UNION

How SA wants to sell the AstraZeneca vaccine for half the price and what the loss could be

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says selling on the vaccines will stem wasteful expenditure, but people close to the discussions with AU say they will be sold on the cheap

  • Lizeka Tandwa
  • Chris Bateman
4 min read
A healthcare worker holds an injection syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, developed against the novel coronavirus pandemic by the US Pfizer and German BioNTech company, at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. (Photo by Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
ADRIAN GORE

This is how medical aid schemes will help to fund SA’s vaccines

Medical aid schemes and businesses will help the government with the cost of acquiring enough vaccines for the South African population to achieve herd immunity

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
3 min read