Jobs in South Africa: the labour market is recovering from COVID – but unskilled and less educated people are still being left behind: For more than three decades the South African economy has had very high rates of joblessness. The country’s economy has been unable to create enough jobs for its growing army of workers. …
State capture in South Africa: time to think differently about redress and recovering the stolen loot: Matshela Koko, former acting group CEO of Eskom, testifies at the state capture commission in 2021. Luba Lesolle/ Gallo Images via Getty Images South Africans are plunged into darkness daily by rolling power cuts. These are a stark reminder …
Go slow and accept your limitations – how to exercise if you’re recovering from long COVID: StratfordProductions/Shutterstock A significant proportion of people who contract COVID are left with ongoing symptoms, commonly termed “long COVID”. The nature of these symptoms and the duration of the illness differ between people. While some people are still suffering more …
Drug addiction in South Africa: what was learned from six young men recovering from opioids: A man living living on the streets in Johannesburg holding the nyaope (opiod) drug ready to smoke. Photo by Bongani Siziba/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The ways we intervene in curbing addiction to substances has shifted from the medical era, …
We’ve been following victims of the Boxing Day tsunami for 16 years – this is what we’ve learned about recovering from disaster: On December 26 2004, waves triggered by a massive earthquake slammed into the coastlines of countries ringing the Indian Ocean. The death toll was enormous. Worldwide, it is estimated that about 230,000 people died …
South Africa in the news: SA food and beverage sector is still staggering – but fast food is recovering: The food and beverage – or restaurant and bar – sector has been absolutely slammed by the Covid-19 lockdowns and draconian policies such as prohibition. The data on income generated by the sector make …: “South …
An open approach to recovering from burnout: Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on working with mental health conditions. It details the author’s personal experiences and is not meant to convey professional medical advice or guidance. Introduction I’m writing this in the middle of another cold and seemingly endless New England winter. …
South Africa in the news: Gorongosa National Park Steadily Recovering from the Ravages of Civil War: Late in November, after three grinding years of begging, bartering, form-filling, false starts and blind alleys, and finally through the added pressures of a global pandemic, the wildlife team at …: “South Africa” – BingNews South Africa shuts 20 …
South Africa in the news: Eskom remains committed to recovering its operational performance: Presenting its state of the system briefing today, Eskom committed to recovering its operational performance and restoring the stability of the power system. Eskom has not implemented rotational …: “South Africa” – BingNews AfriForum requests urgent meeting with Ramaphosa: AfriForum directed an …
Recovering audio from a lost format with open source: Back in the early 2000s, we made a family decision to upgrade the living room stereo. The equipment in place at the time was based on a collection of gear that I had purchased some 20 years earlier when I first had a steady post-university income. …
Titanic salvage: recovering the ship’s radio could signal a disaster for underwater cultural heritage: NOAA/Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island The RMS Titanic’s Marconi radio was last used to make distress calls from the north Atlantic after the ship struck an iceberg on April 14 1912. Now the radio could become the target of a …
Woman recovering from polio-like disease that has seen strange spike in some states: It's a one in a million disease, that has somehow infected people in Colorado this year at a rate almost triple that. Hannah McNeil had the misfortune of being one of the unlucky 14 diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis in the state …
We’ve discovered a way to recovering DNA from fingerprints without destroying them: Shutterstock Fingerprints hold a lot more information than you might realise. They don’t just provide a pattern with which to identify people. They can also contain DNA. And as neither DNA nor fingerprints are infallible ways of working out who was at a …