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Covid-19 vaccines
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Ndweni Ndweni

Covid-19 vaccine inequity: when Africa sneezes, the world sneezes too!

The highly transmissible Covid-19 omicron variant that was recently detected in South Africa was a result of vaccine inequity. Fighting the pandemic as a collective through global Covid-19 vaccination rollout programmes that are inclusive of low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is part of the solution, writes Buhle Ndweni, Independent Health Economist.

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Unemployed
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Ndweni Ndweni

From one unemployed graduate to another: Sizoy’thola kanjani sihlez’ekhoneni?

Being an unemployed graduate or active jobseeker can be discouraging and degrading, especially when it yields little to no results and you are faced with the economics of the stomach. However, the recent looting and vandalism of businesses in what has been dubbed a ‘failed insurrection’ in South Africa’s Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces is not the answer. South Africa’s unemployed, especially the youth, should move away from the employment-seeking mentality and come up with innovative ideas to become self-employed and build towards entrepreneurship, writes Ndweni Ndweni.

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