Health
MPs urged to get tested for TB
All MPs should get themselves tested for TB, the Treatment Action Campaign says.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 24 March 2015
TAC march to parliament on world TB day
Activists from the Treatment Action Campaign marched on Parliament this morning to call for better leadership in tuberculosis (TB) treatment and prevention in South Africa. Today is World TB day.
Daneel Knoetze
Brief | 24 March 2015
A stealthy attempt at censorship
Freedom of speech is a fundamental right recognised in our constitution. But that doesn’t mean everyone has to allow that speech anywhere you want to make it.
Kevin Charleston
Opinion | 18 March 2015
Consumer activist forced to move website offshore
A consumer activist who runs a blog exposing misleading claims about health products has been forced to move his website offshore after a run-in with sports supplement company USN.
Barbara Maregele
News | 17 March 2015
Innovations at Groote Schuur offer hope to patients and nurses
A year after receiving a kidney transplant, Vuyo [not his real name] travelled to the Eastern Cape to visit his grandmother. A young man of 19, Vuyo had been making good progress after the operation, but he still had to take medication daily.
Jon Pienaar
News | 17 March 2015
Heideveld patients protest as disability grant applications declined
A group of 15 people who have been receiving disability grants for at least five years protested outside the Heideveld Community Day Centre on Monday after their latest applications were declined.
Barbara Maregele
News | 10 March 2015
“Now I have lunch in a clean canteen”
The contract workers who clean portable toilets all day at the Borcherd’s Quarry Depot now have a canteen and a place to change.
Zintle Swana
News | 10 March 2015
TAC calls on Free State premier to fire MEC
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has called on Free State Premier Ace Magashule to fire or suspend health MEC Benny Malakoane, after the release of a letter from doctors about the Free State healthcare system.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Brief | 5 March 2015
Sibongile - help for children with disabilities
Nomasango Xabanisa knows only too well how time-consuming it is to look after a disabled child. Her own daughter, Sibongile, had cerebral palsy.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 3 March 2015