Monday, 8 August 2022
Tebadi Mmotla was born and raised in Limpopo. She is a Wits graduate and reports on a range of topics, including higher education, mining and health.
Covid-19 hoaxes have been rife since the start of the pandemic. But where do these conspiracies originate? And why is it so easy to dupe so many?
In this final episode for the year, Radio New Frame reflects on 2020. For the first time since lockdown, the whole team, masked and at a distance, got together and picked some of our favourite interviews.
Those living with the virus have both to defend against ill treatment within their communities and fight protocols in health facilities that infringe on their dignity and privacy.
Watching Ethiopia from afar, a Johannesburg community leader speaks about his fears. Jeremy Corbyn’s “antisemitism” is nonsense, says a Jewish ally. Also, a happy ending for a South African jazz classic.
We look at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s unfinished business. The socialists won in Bolivia, but can they keep the right wing at bay?
Why South Africa’s Covid-19 special grant needs to become a permanent grant. Also, United States President Donald Trump has bolstered fascists in America.
A woman whose uterus was removed as a minor without her consent has taken the health department to court. She is one of scores who have been forcibly sterilised in state hospitals.
A woman tells of her horror at being sterilised without her permission. And Beirut is burning, but the Lebanese government seems unwilling to put out the fires.
While the majority of those who test positive for the virus recover fully, there are a growing number of people who can’t seem to shake unusual symptoms that linger months later.
Women’s Month is just a PR tool for politicians but activists struggle on. Will Joe Biden make the US less imperialistic? And, a coach describes watching football without a crowd.
South African health professionals are treating hospitalised Covid-19 patients with an anti-inflammatory drug that is helping some stay off ventilators.
Apartheid’s terrorist album was a “wanted” list of insurgents, and it could get you killed. Also, when you cannot lip read – how deaf people cope under Covid-19.
The coronavirus pandemic has negatively affected access to women’s healthcare in particular, as well as medical care for those with chronic illnesses.
A doctor opens up about coping with the fears of being a healthcare worker during the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, South Africa’s top judge has defiantly sided with Israel. A Jewish academic explains why this is bad for the judiciary.
Asymptomatic patients who infect large numbers of people derail government efforts to flatten the curve. For those without resources, preventative measures are impractical.
In Durban, a unique programme to help destitute drug users may yield positive results beyond the government’s Covid-19 lockdown. Also, what happens when a left-wing football obsessive is deprived of his sport.
Researchers scrambling to find a treatment for Covid-19 are repurposing existing drugs, including the controversial medications hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.
Pharmacists at one of the major public hospitals in Gauteng say they only received sufficient protective gear after several of their colleagues contracted Covid-19.
After an initial promising response to the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa now runs the risk of a hidden epidemic, warns a health expert. Also, we investigate how zero hours contracts have encroached on South African factories.
South Africa is having to adjust weekly. State grant issues cause upheaval, an update on athletes and artists who applied for financial help and a Madagascan herbal remedy will be subject to scientific study.
Those with underlying medical conditions are at high risk of severe illness owing to Covid-19. In South Africa, it may be the many people living with both HIV and tuberculosis.