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Sarah Wild

Sarah Wild is freelance science journalist, specialising in South African science and research. She studied physics, electronics and English literature in an effort to make herself unemployable. It didn’t work, and now she writes...

TEMPERATURE CHECK
Africa’s broken healthcare systems have an opportunity in Covid-19
June 1, 2020Member exclusive
African countries are struggling to access Covid-19 test reagents on the open market
May 8, 2020Quartz Africa
STICK AND CARROT
South Africa is deploying its army to enforce the lockdown but also ramping up social spending
April 22, 2020Quartz Africa
EXTENDED
South Africa’s president and ministers are taking a 33% pay cut and extended its lockdown
April 9, 2020Quartz Africa
BREATHE EASIER
South Africa is working on producing 10,000 ventilators by the end of June
April 8, 2020Quartz Africa
South Africa is leading the continent’s coronavirus testing challenge boosted by private labs
April 3, 2020Quartz Africa
South Africa’s leadership in HIV research is galvanizing to tackle coronavirus and develop tests
April 2, 2020Quartz Africa
GEARING UP
South Africa is taking drastic steps to save its high-risk population from coronavirus
March 17, 2020Quartz Africa
How long-discredited “race science” research got published from two South African universities
July 29, 2019Quartz Africa
Africa’s great heritage sites are being mapped out with point precision lasers
Dec. 18, 2018Quartz Africa