IN 2005 the earlier apartheid-era Nursing Act was redrafted to provide a 'democratic sheen'. Gone was the French term 'accoucheur', meaning 'one who assists at birth' usually a 'male midwife or obstetrician'. Colonial distinctions between midwife and pupil were instead replaced by several new cat...

OMICRON has a normal Cold virus insertion 214EPE as part of its mutation and is developing into a less pathogenic virus, at the same time it appears that hospitalisations and death rates are decoupling from case loads, which continue to skyrocket. As John Campbell MD puts it, "the virus caught a...

A STATIST POWER-GRAB is on the boil. Government control of your entire life from cradle to grave is what many political pundits have in mind. Whether it is the far-left who are pursuing the end of private property ownership in order to make the state the 'custodian of all property', or misguided...

ETHNOBOTANY is the 'study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous (native) plants.' Needless to say, I attended a science cafe presentation by Nox Makunga, a professor of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University entitled "Medicinal Plants of South Africa: Digg...

THE CAMPAIGN by those punting unlawful vaccine mandates ratcheted up yet another notch this week, with several opinion pieces casting those who oppose immunisation score cards and internal passports, as 'beneath scientific discourse' or to use Stephen Groote's phrase: members of the "desperate an...