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Eastern Cape health MEC Sindiswa GombaImage: FILE/ MARK ANDREWS

BREAKING | Eastern Cape health MEC Gomba tests positive for Covid-19

Eastern Cape health MEC Sindiswa Gomba has tested positive for Covid-19. Provincial health department spokesperson Siyanda Manana said Gomba’s Covid-19 results came back on Sunday. “The MEC is at home for isolation as per the protocol of…

World diabetes awareness day was November 14

There is a compelling reason that global awareness days and months exist. In the case of diabetes, the reason is twofold: stemming a worldwide epidemic and saving lives. According to the International Diabetes Federation, 50% of people…

Dis-Chem’s drive-through Covid-19 test will be done inside your car, which limits exposure for customers and staff. Image: GETTY IMAGES/ SOPA IMAGES/ LIGHTROCKET/ ROBIN UTRECHT

Dis-Chem offers drive-through testing: what you need to know

Pharmaceutical retailer Dis-Chem has launched drive-through Covid-19 testing sites in shopping centre parking lots. The testing sites are at some Dis-Chem stores in Gauteng and went live on Tuesday. SA now has 1,749 confirmed Covid-19…

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – JANUARY 25: England player Ben Stokes is congratulated after taking the catch to dismiss Rassie van der Dussen off the bowling of Sam Curran during Day Two of the Fourth Test between South Africa and England at Wanderers on January 25, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

Proteas on the ropes at Wanderers

BY LIAM DEL CARME – TIMESLIVE South Africa painfully and inexorably nudged towards a series defeat against England here on Saturday. They have a mountain to climb to save this Test‚ never mind winning it to level the series at two-all.…

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Test squad shows SA spin is in rare rude health

One squad‚ three spinners. South Africa won’t want for slow poisoners in their men’s Test series in India in October. Keshav Maharaj‚ South Africa’s first-choice spinner for most of their 30 matches since he made his debut in Perth in…