Can technology help fix state clinics?

There are promising solutions to problems in primary health care but they are mostly emerging in the private sector

Video: Emergency room burnout

Part three in our series on Gauteng’s healthcare crisis

Home Affairs to open refugee offices after two-year closure

Since 26 March 2020 there has been no way for refugees to apply for asylum

Video: Africa’s first LGBTQ+ shelter needs help to gear up for winter

The Pride Shelter in Cape Town houses 20 people, who can stay for up to three months

Disciplinary hearings: some schools are flouting the rules

Schools do not have discretion in dealing with learners who contravene the code of conduct

Residents of Kirkwood join farm workers to shut down Eastern Cape town

The workers are demanding higher wages and the residents of the town demand electricity, water and a police station

Embarrassing court defeat for PRASA

Judge rules that agency defamed Pearl Munthali

Video: Thato’s fight for her life

Part two in our series on Gauteng’s healthcare crisis

Terrified Zimbabweans are sending their possessions home

Cross-border bus companies say they are seeing fewer passengers but a huge increase in the amount of luggage

Court sets out new guidelines for surrogacy agreements

Existing children of a woman who agrees to act as a surrogate must be psychologically assessed, judge says

SASSA not processing new applications for the R350 Covid grant

The agency says it’s waiting for Department of Social Development to finalise amended regulations

Teenager still missing after Durban floods

Asemahle Mazeka’s family was rescued from trees but she has not been found

Mfuleni families left to use the canal as a toilet

Chemical toilets fill up, flush toilets are blocked

Thirteen years after a disabled child spent a night in a filthy cell, court slashes damages payout

Court reduces Minister of Safety and Security’s damages payout by R20,000 and orders each party to pay its own costs

Over a thousand people lose their homes in devastating shack fire

Mayco Member alleges that firefighting effort was hampered by people cutting fire hoses

In photos: Huge fire destroys Langa homes