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3 weeks ago | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Marcus Low |Nathan Geffen
Medical research as we know it in South Africa is facing an existential threat. (Image: BulentYILDIZ/Pixabay) Comment & Analysis3rd April 2025 | Marcus Low and Nathan Geffen The sudden and severe US cuts to grants from the world’s largest health research funder threaten to unravel the medical research landscape in South Africa. A crucial question now is whether the government will turn this crisis into an opportunity for renewal.
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1 month ago | 
brnw.ch | Marcus Low |Nathan Geffen
The sudden and severe US cuts to grants from the world's largest health research funder threaten to unravel the medical research landscape in South Africa. A crucial question now is whether the government will turn this crisis into an opportunity for renewal, write Marcus Low and Nathan Geffen. South Africa has many of the world's best HIV and TB researchers.
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1 month ago | 
allafrica.com | Nathan Geffen
South African Jews for a Free Palestine call for his resignation The President of the Marais Road Shul in Sea Point has apologised for a view he expressed in his monthly email to congregants. In his March email, Reuben Wagenheim described a series of mundane communal events: face-painting for children, visiting rabbis, marriages, and the impressive synagogue choirs. "What a pleasure to hear these refreshing soprano voices singing beautiful Jewish tunes," he wrote about the youth choir.
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1 month ago | 
groundup.org.za | Nathan Geffen
The President of the Marais Road Shul in Sea Point has apologised for a view he expressed in his monthly email to congregants. In his March email, Reuben Wagenheim described a series of mundane communal events: face-painting for children, visiting rabbis, marriages, and the impressive synagogue choirs. “What a pleasure to hear these refreshing soprano voices singing beautiful Jewish tunes,” he wrote about the youth choir.
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1 month ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Marcus Low |Nathan Geffen
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED Medical research as we know it in South Africa is facing an existential threat.
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1 month ago | 
allafrica.com | Marcus Low |Nathan Geffen
Medical scientists at the University of Cape Town have been hit especially hard by funding cuts by the United States government. South Africa has many of the world's best HIV and TB researchers. Until recently, this research excellence was widely recognised by the fact that local research groups kept winning grants to conduct critically important studies. These grants were not given away as charity or international aid but were awarded through highly competitive processes.
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2 months ago | 
bizcommunity.com | Marecia Damons |Nathan Geffen
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Postbank admits that completing the process on time is “impossible”. The deadline for the transition from the SASSA Gold Card to the Black Card is looming. Archive photo: Marecia Damons / GroundUp About 1.9-million Sassa Gold Card holders still need to switch to the Postbank Black Card before the 20 March deadline.
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2 months ago | 
bizcommunity.com | Ged Nooy |Nathan Geffen
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South Africa faces ongoing water shortages driven by shifting weather patterns, infrastructure challenges, and persistent droughts. In response, Shoprite and Checkers have stepped up to support customers by offering purified water at just R1 per litre in the majority of its supermarkets.
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2 months ago | 
groundup.org.za | Marecia Damons |Nathan Geffen
An investigation into SASSA’s Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system has found significant security flaws making it vulnerable to fraud. The findings were presented to Parliament’s social development portfolio committee on Wednesday. Fraudulent websites mimicking SASSA’s official platform are stealing personal data from applicants, with victims already suffering from identity theft and financial fraud, the investigation found.
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2 months ago | 
groundup.org.za | Nathan Geffen
There are severe criticisms to be made of US foreign aid. It is often wasteful and almost always very bureaucratic. It sometimes serves sinister interests, such as when a vaccination project in Pakistan was used in the effort to catch Osama bin Laden, a ploy that hurt public trust in vaccines in that country. Billions of dollars in US military aid goes annually to Egypt and Israel, who use that aid to oppress people.
