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Boom: It’s not only international tourists travelling in Zambia, locals are exploring too. Photo: Zambia Tourism Agency

Zambia tourism taking off

In the past three years, Zambia has recorded a nearly 300% increase in international tourist arrivals, following the removal of visa fees

Lessons learned: During the Covid-19 pandemic, Global South countries such as South Africa were the last to get vaccines, ventilators and personal protective equipment, with these items delivered to wealthier nations first and surplus vaccines left to expire. Photo: David Harrison

Reform legislation to boost the Pandemic Treaty

Business interests and intellectual property laws privilege the wealthy and leave the rest scrabbling for life-saving medicine

Why hotel reviews alone shouldn’t drive your travel decisions

Ninety-seven percent of hotel guests consult online reviews before booking their stay, according to a recent study by Accor

Young people want to work, not wait

A skilled, educated, economically supported youth is the bedrock of a strong democracy

Peking: A woman in a blue coat takes a throat swab from a woman for a Covid-19 test. Before the People’s Congress in China, participating media representatives had to have a Covid test. (Photo by Johannes Neudecker/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Global health equity undermined by US propaganda against Chinese Covid-19 vaccines

Six months before the first jabs arrived, an online survey in January of 2021 showed that nearly 60% of the 7 193 respondents were confident in a Covid-19 vaccine made in the US…

On the brink: Telkom is on its way down. (Photo: Gallo Images/Lefty Shivambu)

Is Telkom on the brink of extinction?

The share price of South Africa’s third-largest mobile operator has gone down by more than 85% since reaching its all-time high in 2007

According to the WHO, the two documents are being drafted with intentions of learning from failures in the management of the Covid-19 crisis and building upon its successes. Marco Longari/AFP

Stealthy state crimes during times of disaster

ANC cadres used the Covid-19 pandemic for self-enrichment under the guise of BBBEE

A woman waters her crops in Amudat, Uganda (below). (Photos: Edurdo Soteras/AFP & Luis Tato/AFP)

From Joburg to Nairobi, soaring food prices are biting hard

African governments face civil unrest from people who are hungrier and poorer because of the pandemic, war in Ukraine, climate pressures on food systems and poor policy decisions

At the heart of a strong business culture is an underlying sense of belonging and a common desire to serve people. (Photo by Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Tips for understanding the world of Work 4.0

Collaboration and experimentation are key for the new workplace, particularly as nobody fully understands it yet

The expansion of social grants has been one of the most significant redistributive measures in democratic South Africa. Grants now support millions of children, older persons, and people with disabilities.
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More money for grants, but Godongwana was spared the BIG decision

A long-term basic income relief measure will depend on spending cuts and improved revenue performance, the finance minister said in his guarded words on the subject

MTN has announced that it is exiting Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry in a bid to leave some markets in West Africa. (Supplied)

MTN increases its support for media industry after devastation of Covid-19

The telecommunications giant has donated a further R800 000 to help the independent media stay afloat

At the heart of a strong business culture is an underlying sense of belonging and a common desire to serve people. (Photo by Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The role of culture in mitigating employee burnout

At the heart of a strong business culture is an underlying sense of belonging and a common desire to serve people

Across the country, 40% of residents in informal settlements indicated that they do not have access to taps and decent sanitation (toilets) at all.

Shocking service delivery in informal settlements

Broken taps and toilets are the last thing shack dwellers need in the midst of a pandemic

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)

What does Covid-19 alert level 2 mean for elections, movement and gatherings

As Cyril Ramaphosa moves South Africa to alert level 2, gatherings have been flagged as the biggest driver of increases. But what does this alert level mean as the country moves…

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)
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WATCH AGAIN: Ramaphosa addresses the nation

The president will update the nation on developments in the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic

The state’s laboratory finally revealed the numbers — there were more than 80 000 specimens still in the queue to be tested for Covid-19. (David Harrison/M&G)

Happiness is too important to leave to chance

Newfound clarity on the important things in life has been hailed as a silver lining of this crisis. Planning a future around ‘purpose, passion and pay’ may be the key to having…

Big retailers need to step up to the plate

To stave off a multi-generational malnutrition crisis, the food industry must work with government to provide highly nutritious foods at cost during the pandemic

The McKinsey dossier part 6 – five strikes and you’re IN

How McKinsey is making $100m and counting) advising the US government’s coronavirus response

For the world’s best-known corporate-management consultants, helping tackle the pandemic has been a bonanza. It’s not clear what the US government has gotten in return

With doctors in short supply, healthcare employers need to invest in intelligent technologies to make the experience of accessing healthcare as good as it can be, for all involved. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)

The fastest way out of the pandemic is a safe vaccine

The Covax platform ensures that the benefits and risks of vaccine development are broadly shared

Dispelling myths: Dadaab in Kenya is one of the largest refugee camps in the world, with more than 200 000 refugees, mostly Somalis fleeing civil war and famine. Physical distancing is difficult in the crowded complex and they share water taps. But misinformation about Covid-19 is an added danger (Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Meet refugee camp’s ‘Corona Guy’

One radio presenter is using the airwaves to bring vital facts about the virus to Dadaab’s 217 000 residents