Health
SJC only prove their ignorance
The Social Justice Coalition (SJC) has once again proven their obsession with budgets, and their incompetence at interpreting them.
Ernest Sonnenberg
Opinion | 1 April 2015
Mayor de Lille, here’s your evidence. It’s time for action.
When Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille tabled the 2015/2016 draft budget last week, she said, “In my years as Mayor, not once has any substantive proof to counter our evidence of pro-poor spending ever been offered.”
Axolile Notywala
Opinion | 31 March 2015
Free State health workers on trial for protesting dismissals
There are protests outside the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court this morning, as a trial of health workers resumes amidst widespread dissatisfaction with the Free State health system and MEC Benny Malakoane.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 30 March 2015
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