Health
Stop making patients wait outside, TAC tells clinics
Patient describes how they fear nurses
News | 21 September 2020
Undertakers go on strike
Organisation representing 3,000 emerging firms wants regulations changed
News | 14 September 2020
“We will hit them where it hurts” warns NEHAWU leader
Union vows to shut down government services, including SARS and SASSA
Brief | 14 September 2020
Villagers donate money to build a clinic in a shack
Villagers in the rural Eastern Cape struggling to access health services have tried to create their own infrastructure
News | 9 September 2020
How Western Cape will check for a future Covid-19 surge
Large survey of pregnant women and people with HIV suggests a lot of Capetonians have already been infected
By James Stent
News | 4 September 2020
Unions threaten total shutdown if no response in five days
NEHAWU is demanding a 7% increase
Brief | 3 September 2020
UCT professor’s research offers hope of treatment for sickle cell anaemia
80% of babies born with the disease are in sub-Saharan Africa
By Elsabé Brits
Science | 2 September 2020
Community healthcare workers demand “danger pay”
“We need proper PPE because we work in cramped bungalows and shipping containers”
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 1 September 2020
Villagers have to carry their dead over a “dangerous” river
Children stay away from school when rains fill the river
News | 1 September 2020