Health

City promises social housing in Woodstock

Sceptical activist calls for concrete plans

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News | 31 January 2017

Gugulethu toddler needs a liver transplant … and a better house

Transplant patients in poor housing face risk of infection, doctors warn

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News | 24 January 2017

Residents in Pietermaritzburg march for clinic

Community members say they struggle to pay the travel costs to access health services

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Brief | 13 December 2016

Gupta company fails to pay R4.2m clinic bill

Optimum Coal Mine is failing to meet its Mining Charter obligations

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News | 13 December 2016

Court affirms Medicines Control Council’s powers

Judgment is a victory for the scientific governance of medicine

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Law | 12 December 2016

Free State’s R380 million ghost hospital

Albert Nzula Hospital stands almost empty after two years

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Feature | 6 December 2016

We need a TAC for mental health, says state psychiatrist

People most likely to need help have the least access

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News | 6 December 2016

Paralysed man gets his medication

Compensation Fund apologises

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Brief | 5 December 2016

Community care workers left to fend for themselves again

Workers excluded from proposed minimum wage

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Opinion | 2 December 2016

TAC pickets against alleged shoddy treatment at Khayelitsha clinic

Complaints over treatment of pregnant women, lack of confidentiality and other issues

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Brief | 18 November 2016

Social clubs offer respite for elderly

"Here I get to relax and not think about my problems"

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News | 18 November 2016

Compensation Fund has failed stab victim

Thamsanqa Mtyobeni’s fate part of “huge national crisis” says hospital director

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News | 9 November 2016

Medical lawsuits threaten to derail the health system

South African hospitals need drastic reform to avoid disaster

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News | 8 November 2016

University students help rural learners stay in school

DUT students deliver sanitary pads

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News | 7 November 2016

Man with epilepsy nurses family

Both his aunt and stepfather have cancer

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News | 3 November 2016

Rare facility for kids with special needs

Parents and caregivers have been running their own facility in East London for ten years

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News | 2 November 2016