Posts tagged with 'depression'

 

Durban mayor’s logic is questioned – wants to close Durban port to become independent of Western imperialism

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The Durban mayor announced over the weekend that the Durban port should be closed to prevent minerals from leaving the country.

This must apparently be done to become independent of Western imperialism. No word has been spoken of China and the Brick countries exporting minerals.

Mike Schüssler questions the logic, as mining houses without exports would not be able to pay workers and workers could not take money home.

Without mineral exports, the economy as a whole would go under and the existing weak economy would have been already in a deep depression.

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South Africa stuck in longest downward cycle since before Apartheid (1945)! Ramaphosa tries to talk it better…

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Neither communism nor multiculturalism has ever worked, yet South Africa is implementing both at the same time to disastrous effect! Now Ramaphosa has vowed to rebuild crashing confidence in South Africa’s economy, and desperate South Africans, who want concrete things that can make a difference in the economy, have no choice but to hope he does. He promised real actions that “move the needle,”  however in Africa accountability is not required.

After a decade of low growth and deepening poverty, South Africans are looking for signs of progress, according to President Cyril Ramaphosa. He pledged “concrete things” to rebuild confidence in the economy.

This year, the economy will record growth lower than expected, Ramaphosa said. The GDP growth forecast for 2019 has been revised by the National Treasury to 1.5 percent, from an estimated
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A tech company, Proteus, just launched a ‘smart’ cancer pills that track you with tiny sensors stamped into your medications

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A US digital medicine company called Proteus makes ‘smart pills’ embedded with sensors that tell your doctor when you’ve taken your medication. The pills also track activity levels.

Backed by big name investors like Novartis, Proteus debuted the first medication made with the technology – a form of the depression and schizophrenia drug Abilify – in 2017.

Now, Proteus is expanding into cancer.

Still, the research on whether the pills actually help patients take their medications when they should remains somewhat unclear.

Would a notification from your doctor as soon as you forget to take your medication help keep you on track?

A digital medicine company called Proteus is betting the answer is yes.

The Silicon Valley-based company makes what have been called “smart pills”: essentially, versions of regular medications embedded with a tiny sensor that can be tracked by a patch worn on a
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A mother of a Grade 11 student wants teacher removed for alleged bullying

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Nicole Mnguni, an 18-year-old student at Vorentoe High School in Klipspruit, died by suicide and her mother is demanding justice from the Department of Education.

Her mother, Jessica Mnguni, found a hand-written letter dated September 2018, that highlights the humiliation Nicole had to endure at the hands of her maths teacher. Nicole feared going to school and wanted her teacher to treat her “like everyone else.”

Jessica told Sowetan Live that words cannot express how she feels and added that the “so-called teacher killed this family.” Jessica went to the school to get justice for her daughter and contacted the Education Department’s district office to investigate.

She explained that the teacher was rude to her when she visited the school and said her daughter would not “be anybody in life.” Jessica, a teacher herself, said this behaviour was unacceptable. She explained:

“Nicole is so bubbly but that woman killed her self-
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