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