Health
Cape Town health workers protest, demand permanent jobs
They say they are being exploited and underpaid
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 16 April 2026
SA’s only state transgender surgery clinic can help just four patients a year
But Groote Schuur’s Transgender Healthcare Clinic is seeing five to ten new patients a month and new patients may wait 20 to 30 years for surgery
News | 14 April 2026
Judge orders Tark Group directors to personally repay covid contract profits
The Special Tribunal has ruled that R14-million in contracts for surgical masks and protective jumpsuits bypassed bid processes
Law | 7 April 2026
Lesotho organisations push back against US health deal
A leaked copy of the agreement has raised concerns about transparency and data sharing
By Liezl Human
Brief | 31 March 2026
Parents’ consent and children’s health: important ruling in Cape High Court
Judge praises staff at Red Cross Hospital
Law | 30 March 2026
Court warns government: stop vigilantes blocking clinic access
The Department of Health and other government respondents have failed to comply with a court order to stop anti-immigrant vigilantes screening patients
Brief | 27 March 2026
Work on Eastern Cape clinic stalled because health department didn’t pay the builder
Patients have to queue in the rain outside a temporary clinic
News | 10 March 2026
South Africa is bleeding to death – and it’s because of guns
It’s time to treat gun violence as a public health crisis
By Claire Taylor and Dean Peacock
Opinion | 9 March 2026
I was shot in the head in 1986. I’m still paying the price
Why gun violence is a public health crisis
Opinion | 3 March 2026