Bobby Jordan is a senior reporter for the Sunday Times and TimesLIVE.
Stellenbosch municipality loses two councillors and seven staff to Covid-19
PoliticsCovid-19 has claimed the lives of two councillors and seven officials of the Stellenbosch municipality, the council ...
Lab group ordered to stop offering Covid tests in row over accreditation
NewsThe health department has stopped a national private laboratory service conducting unaccredited Covid-19 screening ...
Too afraid to go to public hospital, many are dying of Covid-19 at home
NewsMany critically ill Covid-19 sufferers appear to be dying at home because they are too afraid to go to a public ...
Karoo municipality slammed for 'political' appointments, massive service contract
NewsOne of the country’s poorest municipalities is planning to outsource the provision of electricity and water services at ...
Get off the beaches, and start queuing: Government accused of double standards
NewsThe government has chased everybody off the beaches, but insists they queue up to renew their car licence discs.
Government ramps up efforts to stop Covid-19 breakout in prison
NewsCorrectional services officials are ramping up efforts to contain Covid-19 after an alarming increase in positive cases ...
Soldiers to enforce Cape beach ban as Covid-19 takes toll on police
NewsPolice minister Bheki Cele has confirmed that soldiers will be deployed to help enforce lockdown rules on the Garden ...
Netcare sees 'alarming rise in admissions' of Covid-19 patients at hospitals
NewsPrivate health-care group Netcare says patient admissions to its hospitals in the Western Cape are starting to ...
Covid-19 killed 339 state health-care workers between March and November
NewsAlmost 340 state health-care workers died of Covid-19 related illness in SA between March and November, health minister ...
Hospital staff accused of ignoring birth on their doorstep
NewsHospital staff allegedly refused to help a young woman in premature labour who ended up giving birth in the hospital ...