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KwaZulu-Natal’s world renowned infectious disease epidemiologist Professor Salim Abdool Karim will be taking on a new role as a member of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) science council.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
Gaborone is the capital and largest city in the African country of Botswana. Formerly known as Gaberones, the name was changed and the town was declared the capital of the country shortly after Botswana won its independence from Great Britain in 1966. Its history, however, extends back much further than 1966.
Though in the last century the location has had no formal tribal affiliation, in 1880 it was settled by Kgosi Gaborone, a Botswana chief of the Batlokwa people. Chosen for its nearness to the Notwane River, he called it Moshaweng. Today the people of Botswana range from clan members of the original Batlokwa tribes as well as expatriates from the developed world. Those from the original Tlokwa people can trace their lineage back to Queen Manthatisi and her son Chief Sekonyela, and tend to speak both English and Setswana.
Gaborone is also the center of commerce in Botswana, with numerous important companies headquartered in the capital as well as most of the nation’s financial institutions. De Beers, one of the world’s largest diamond mining companies, was founded near Gaborone in 1888. Its international headquarters remains based in Gaborone. Today De Beers employs many locals, teaching them important skills of diamond sorting and cutting through partnership with the national government. This venture is called Debswana and ensures that the people as well as the diamond industry benefit from mining enterprises situated in the nation.
One of Botswanas major features outside of the diamond industry is its natural beauty. Unique flora and fauna abound in numerous reserves such as the area surrounding the Gaborone dam and the Gaborone Game Reserve, which is world famous for its bird watching. Other attractions include Kgale Hill and Mokolodi Nature Reserve. Numerous species inhabit the reserve including impala, ostriches, zebras, wildebeest, springbok, Common Egland, warthogs, and hippos. The critically endangered White Rhino is also here, and— although once nearly extinct— it is being reintroduced
'It is clearer than ever that the occupation is not temporary, and there is not the political will in the Israeli government to bring about its end.'
There are now more than over 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when.
As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.
SUGGESTED READING: Africa’s COVID-19 deaths pass 100,000 mark
Major African stats: May 26 at 6:00 GMT:
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\t\tConfirmed cases = 115,892
\t\tNumber of deaths = 3,479
\t\tRecoveries = 46,553
\t\tActive cases = 65,860
Countries in alphabetical order
\t\tAlgeria – 8,503
\t\tAngola – 70
\t\tBenin – 191
\t\tBotswana – 35
\t\tBurkina Faso – 832
\t\tBurundi – 42
\t\tCameroon – 4,890
\t\tCape Verde – 390
\t\tCentral African Republic – 652
\t\tChad – 687
\t\tComoros – 87
\t\tCongo-Brazzaville – 487
\t\tDR Congo – 2,297
\t\tDjibouti – 2,468
\t\tEgypt – 17,967
\t\tEquatorial Guinea – 1,043
\t\tEritrea – 39
\t\tEswatini – 256
\t\tEthiopia – 655
\t\tGabon – 2,135
\t\t(The) Gambia – 25
\t\tGhana – 6,808
\t\tGuinea – 3,275
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 1,178
\t\tIvory Coast – 2,423
\t\tKenya – 1,286
\t\tLesotho – 2
\t\tLiberia – 265
\t\tLibya – 75
\t\tMadagascar – 542
\t\tMalawi – 101
\t\tMali – 1,059
\t\tMauritania – 262
\t\tMauritius – 334
\t\tMorocco – 7,532
\t\tMozambique – 209
\t\tNamibia – 21
\t\tNiger – 951
\t\tNigeria – 8,068
\t\tRwanda – 336
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 299
\t\tSenegal – 3,130
\t\tSeychelles – 11
\t\tSierra Leone – 735
\t\tSomalia – 1,689
\t\tSouth Africa – 23,615
\t\tSouth Sudan – 806
\t\tSudan – 3,976
\t\tTanzania – 509
\t\tTogo – 386
\t\tTunisia – 1,051
\t\tUganda – 222
\t\tZambia – 920
\t\tZimbabwe – 56
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The value of the food lost or wasted is put at R60-billion or 2% of SA’s GDP, according to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
To honour Youth Day, Africa Now Radio host LootLove is featuring interviews and music from SA’s most inspiring artists and creatives alike on June 16.
[The Conversation Africa] On 5 June 1981 a short report of five cases of pneumocystis pneumonia in young homosexual men in Los Angeles marked the discovery of AIDS, the first pandemic of the 20th century caused by a completely new virus, HIV.
In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack. In fact, it has barely gotten out of the starting blocks. In South Africa, which has the continent’s most robust economy and its biggest coronavirus caseload, just 0.8% of the population is fully vaccinated, according to a worldwide tracker kept by Johns […]
André Philippus Brink , (born May 29, 1935, Vrede, South Africa—died February 6, 2015, in an airplane traveling from the Netherlands to South Africa), South African writer whose novels, which he wrote in Afrikaans and English versions, often criticized the South African government.
Brink was educated in South Africa and France. He later became professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He was one of a new generation of Afrikaans writers known as Die Sestigers (“the Sixtyers,” or writers of the 1960s), whose declared aim was “to broaden the rather too parochial limits of Afrikaner fiction.” In essence, this meant depicting sexual and moral matters and examining the political system in a way that rapidly antagonized the traditional Afrikaner reader.
Brink’s early novels Lobola vir die lewe (1962; “The Price of Living”) and Die ambassadeur (1963; The Ambassador) were essentially apolitical, but his later work presented increasingly bleak and bitter evidence of the disintegration of human values that occurs under apartheid. Kennis van die aand (1973; Looking on Darkness), ’N oomblik in die wind (1975; An Instant in the Wind), and Gerugte van reën (1978; Rumours of Rain) used the sexual relationship between a black man and a white woman to show the destructiveness of racial hatred. Brink was perhaps best known outside his homeland for the antiapartheid novel ’N droë wit seisoen (1979; A Dry White Season; film 1989), in which a white liberal investigates the death of a black activist in police custody. His later works include Houd-den-bek (1982; A Chain of Voices), which recounts through many points of view a slave revolt in 1825; Die kreef raak gewoond daaraan (1991; An Act of Terror); Anderkant die stilte (2002; The Other Side of Silence); Bidsprinkaan (2005; Praying Mantis); and Philida (2012). He also wrote plays and travel books and translated foreign literature into Afrikaans. Brink’s memoir, A Fork in the Road (2009), is a meditation on the evolution of his
Bloemfontein Celtic will have their two-transfer window ban from FIFA come into play during the coming transfer window, after failing to settle on a reported R3 Million owed to former keeper Patrick Tignyemb
The IEC says that it stands ready to resume running by-elections under Level 1 lockdown, with strict Covid-19 protocols in place.
According to the results of the 2011 census . . ., English is the fourth most widely spoken mother tongue [in South Africa] behind isiZulu, isiXhosa and Afrikaans.
It stands to reason that Afrikaans, which became the language of power when the National party took over in 1948, has influenced South African English more than any other. Afrikaans was used as a tool to suppress the masses throughout apartheid, itself an Afrikaans word that has been appropriated not only by South African English speakers, but in English the world over. . . .
[I]ts remarkably easy, even for an armchair etymologist, to write a litany of South African regionalisms that English has pilfered from Afrikaans. But there are two words that are foremost in my mind when I think about how Afrikaans has shaped the way I speak.
One is ja (with a soft y), meaning yes, whose ubiquity might be attributed to its pronunciation. Its takes so little effort to say that its basically an exhale.
The vocabulary is the really striking thing. It is hugely distinctive and diverse, thanks to the number of languages which feed it. There are 11 official languages in South Africa. Each one borrows wildly from the others. And English borrows most of all. . . .
I overheard a woman in the British Council office talk about going to meet mer mamazala. I found out later this was a Zulu word for mother-in-law.
Five types of South African English have been identified, which may be crudely separated according to population groups (Branford 1996: 35). Within each type there is a continuum of varieties ranging from broad to close to standard British English.
What we refer to as South African English (SAfE) in this chapter is the variety spoken by the smallest of these groups, namely the English spoken as a first language by white South Africans. . . .
The other types of South African Englishes are predominantly (with some exceptions) non-native varieties of English:
Afrikaans English is the variety spoken by South Africans of Dutch descent (including white
A local biotechnology firm is stepping up to try and plug the shortfall in testing capacity.
There are now more than over 220,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
Major African stats: June 13 at 8:30 GMT:
\t\tConfirmed cases = 225,126
\t\tNumber of deaths = 6,051
\t\tRecoveries = 102,912
\t\tActive cases = 116,163
\t\tAlgeria – 10,698
\t\tAngola – 130
\t\tBenin – 388
\t\tBotswana – 48
\t\tBurkina Faso – 892
\t\tBurundi – 85
\t\tCameroon – 8,681
\t\tCape Verde – 697
\t\tCentral African Republic – 2,044
\t\tChad – 848
\t\tComoros – 163
\t\tCongo-Brazzaville – 728
\t\tDR Congo – 4,637
\t\tDjibouti – 4,441
\t\tEgypt – 41,303
\t\tEquatorial Guinea – 1,306
\t\tEritrea – 41
\t\tEswatini – 472
\t\tEthiopia – 2,915
\t\tGabon – 3,463
\t\t(The) Gambia – 28
\t\tGhana – 11,118
\t\tGuinea – 4,426
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 1,460
\t\tIvory Coast – 4,684
\t\tKenya – 3,305
\t\tLesotho – 4
\t\tLiberia – 421
\t\tLibya – 409
\t\tMadagascar – 1,240
\t\tMalawi – 481
\t\tMali – 1,752
\t\tMauritania – 1,572
\t\tMauritius – 337
\t\tMorocco – 8,610
\t\tMozambique – 509
\t\tNamibia – 31
\t\tNiger – 978
\t\tNigeria- 15,181
\t\tRwanda – 510
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 650
\t\tSenegal – 4,851
\t\tSierra Leone – 1,103
\t\tSomalia – 2,513
\t\tSouth Africa – 61,927
\t\tSouth Sudan – 1,670
\t\tSudan – 6,879
\t\tTogo – 525
\t\tTunisia – 1,093
\t\tUganda – 686
\t\tZambia – 1,321
\t\tZimbabwe – 343
The MTC was fermented for 15 months using apple harvests from 2018.
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As of April 7, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 4,289,749 while over 7,488,208 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.
The Department of Water and Sanitation says it will take on union Solidarity in court over their application to reverse the deployment of engineers from Cuba in South Africa.
DA councillor Nqaba Bhanga was elected as the new Executive Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, SA's latest COVID-19 hotspot.
Janelle Jones, 36, was born in North Dakota and raised in Lorain, Ohio. At a very young age, she fell in love with numbers. Mathematics became part of her upbringing as her dad would usually come home with mathematics books for her to study. Jones would later leave Ohio for Spelman College, a historically Black...
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[SAnews.gov.za] A study on vaccine efficacy against COVID-19 variants has shown that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine works better against the Delta variant, and gets better over time with both Delta and Beta variants.
