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Pick n Pay Clothing has introduced its latest flagship store in Johannesburg with the reopening of its Mall of Africa store. The retailer has added 32 new stores to its network in 2024, with plans to open another 12 by the end of the year. Image supplied Many existing stores, such as Rosebank and the […]

Young Africans are set to transform the digital health landscape with the launch of the Youth in Digital Health Network (YiDHN) by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit-African Union (GIZ-AU) office. Africa CDC’s Youth Division announced this program on the sidelines of

Updated: 11/11/2024 – 17:24 GMT+1 King Charles III led the nation on Sunday in a two-minute silence in remembrance of fallen service personnel in central London as the Princess of Wales looked on, a further sign the royal family is slowly returning to normal at the end of a year in which two of the

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Soaring rhetoric, urgent pleas and pledges of cooperation contrasted with a backdrop of seismic political changes, global wars and economic hardships as United Nations annual climate talks began Monday and got right to the hard part: money. In Baku, Azerbaijan, where the world’s first oil well was drilled and the smell of

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has expressed concern at the increasing presence of counterfeit Glucagon-like Peptide (GLP-1) products, such as Ozempic, on the local market. According to Sahpra, GLP-1-containing products, like Ozempic, which help lower blood-sugar levels and promote weight loss, are being made available to the public through websites, social media,

As COP29 opens in Baku, Greenpeace Africa calls on world leaders to deliver ambitious climate finance to African nations bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. With climate finance to developing countries dwarfed by fossil fuel industry’s profits and subsidies, African communities–who have contributed least to the crisis–are calling for immediate implementation of a Climate

Under the new proposal, the current four-month fully paid leave could be extended to six months, and five-month leave at 80% pay could increase to seven months. ADVERTISEMENT A proposal for extending fully paid parental leave in Portugal to six months is currently under parliamentary review but will not be approved by the end of

Like other social scientists and scholars, I’ll spend the next weeks and months scouring pre-election data, the exit polls, and the first wave of post-election surveys trying to understand how a majority of American voters chose to return Donald Trump—a twice-impeached convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser who incited a violent insurrection when he lost

Machine_, a leading creative agency, recently hosted two workshops for the Blackboard Community in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The sessions were designed to offer young creatives an inside look at the advertising world, showing them how different roles – from account management to production — work together to bring client briefs to life. This immersive

Nineteen African states–those currently reporting or that have reported Mpox cases within this outbreak–gathered in a ‘back-to-school’ style meeting in Congo Brazzaville in the first week of November. They shared expertise on developing Mpox vaccination plans, according to the continental Incident Management Support Team (IMST) vaccination pillar. A review of plans submitted to the IMST