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Media

Google moves against notorious spam news website

Nathan Geffen 14 Mar 2024

The Limpopo Mirror is published in Louis Trichardt, a town in the north of South Africa’s Limpopo province. Photo: Anton van Zyl

Media

Google and Facebook are killing local news

Nathan Geffen and Anton van Zyl 8 Mar 2024

Advertising

Ithuba campaign raises troubling questions for Twitter

James Stent and Nathan Geffen 26 Aug 2022

#BestofBiz 2021: Healthcare

Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2021: Healthcare

13 Dec 2021

Styli Charalambous, the CEO and cofounder of Daily Maverick was awarded the Nat Nakasa Award for 2021.

Media

Nat Nakasa Journalism Awards 2021 winners announced

16 Aug 2021

Source: Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Media

Vaccine denialism kills: Mail & Guardian has let down its readers

Nathan Geffen and Mia Malan 10 Aug 2021

Community distribution in Nigeria of ivermectin for onchocerciasis, a disease this drug treats effectively and safely. Photo: Kate Holt/Sightsavers (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Covid-19

Ivermectin: balance of evidence shows no benefit against Covid-19

Nathan Geffen & Elsabé Brits 7 Jul 2021

Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Covid-19

Covid-19: Remarkable results from blood donor survey

Michael Cherry and Nathan Geffen 15 Feb 2021

This graph published by the MRC shows how much worse the second Covid-19 surge is than the first one that peaked in July.

Covid-19

Record number of South Africans died in first week of 2021

James Stent and Nathan Geffen 14 Jan 2021

To suppress the Covid-19 pandemic, tens of millions of South Africans would have to be vaccinated. Nothing at that scale has been done here before. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

Covid-19

Vaccinating tens of millions of people will be very difficult

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 27 Nov 2020

Statistics about Covid-19 are confusing. We hope this article helps reduce confusion. (Image of SARS-CoV-2 virions emerging from a cell by the US NIAID, CC BY 2.0)

Covid-19

Covid-19: What do South Africa's numbers mean?

Marcus Low & Nathan Geffen 9 Apr 2020

CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-PCR Diagnostic Panel. Photo: United States Centers for Disease Control via Wikimedia (public domain)

Infectious Diseases

Covid-19: Why "test, test, test" is easier said than done

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 18 Mar 2020

New Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize (David Harrison)

Public Health

Politics & power: Why Zweli Mkhize may be a new dawn for health in SA - or not?

Mia Malan & Laura Lopez Gonzalez 31 May 2019

SU summit to focus on snake oil and pseudoscience

Ethical Medicines

SU summit to focus on snake oil and pseudoscience

8 Nov 2017

The banal evil of drug pricing

Pharmaceuticals

The banal evil of drug pricing

Nathan Geffen 29 Sep 2015

South Africa: Twelve years of the TAC fight

HIV/AIDS

South Africa: Twelve years of the TAC fight

5 Oct 2011