Health
A quarter of Worcester’s children are stunted
Mothers who completed high school are much less likely to have stunted children
News | 19 May 2021
Strike at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University enters second week
NEHAWU is demanding a 6% pay increase; management initially offered 3.5%
Brief | 17 May 2021
New Pretoria clinic is a case study in why many township projects fail
The site is a dump after contractors became fed up and left
News | 14 May 2021
Black donors needed to help save lives
Finding a matching bone marrow donor is very difficult and only 30% of registered donors in South Africa are people of colour. Here’s why that matters
Explainer | 5 May 2021
“We’re forgotten here”: rubbish is piling up in the little settlement of Riemvasmaak
City of Cape Town says refuse is collected weekly
News | 20 April 2021
Community health workers confront Mkhize with memorandum of demands
“What can we do with a R3,500 stipend? We have to send our kids to school and pay rent”
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 20 April 2021
Vaccine rollout needs to restart immediately
Continuing the “pause” will cost lives
GroundUp and Spotlight Editors
GroundView | 16 April 2021
Funders of African health research are excluding Africans, say scientists
African scientists call on funders to “decolonise global health”
By James Stent
News | 15 April 2021
Workers at Dora Nginza Hospital downed tools over bonuses
Union says massive strike is looming over performance management
Brief | 13 April 2021