International News
UN chief slams Covid-19 'travel apartheid' as unacceptable
By: Reuters 2nd December 2021 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that travel restrictions imposed over Covid-19 that isolate any one country or... →
WHO to deploy Covid surge team to Gauteng to support surveillance 
By: Thabi Madiba 2nd December 2021 WHO to deploy Covid surge team to Gauteng to support surveillance The World Health Organization announced on Thursday that it is deploying a surge... →
Return illegal Covid-19 drug to Cuba or we will confiscate and destroy it – Sahpra tells SANDF
By: News24Wire 1st December 2021 The South African National Defence Force's R200-million deal with Cuba that has seen the importation of an unregistered Covid-19 drug appears to be... →
Stop acting like former colonisers, Ramaphosa tells African countries that imposed travel bans
By: News24Wire 30th November 2021 President Cyril Ramaphosa says African countries should not act like former coloniser countries by imposing unscientific travel bans after the... →
China's Xi pledges another 1-billion Covid-19 vaccine doses for Africa
By: Reuters 29th November 2021 President Xi Jinping on Monday said China would offer another 1-billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines to African countries and would encourage Chinese... →
Omicron poses "very high" global risk, world must prepare – WHO
By: Reuters 29th November 2021 The Omicron coronavirus variant is likely to spread internationally, posing a "very high" global risk of infection surges that could have "severe... →
Swahili becomes the first African language to be honoured by Unesco
By: News24Wire 26th November 2021 Kiswahili or Swahili, a language spoken in at least 11 African countries by an estimated 98-million people became the first African language to get... →
South Africa questions UK flight ban amid global alarm over Covid variant
By: Reuters 26th November 2021 South Africa said on Friday a British ban on flights from six southern African countries over a new Covid-19 variant seemed rushed, as EU... →
