Health
Workers threaten shut down of KZN public health services
Department given 14 days to respond to grievances
Brief | 5 October 2018
Community health workers demand higher wages
Workers have accused the provincial health department of not upholding a 2017 agreement to standardise stipends
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 5 October 2018
Activists call for improved access to safe abortions
“We have a right as women to choose what we do with our bodies without being questioned”
By Zoë Postman
News | 29 September 2018
New tuberculosis vaccine raises hopes
But one more large trial is needed, says TB activist
By Kim Reynolds
Brief | 28 September 2018
Nine-year-old circumcised at school by “mistake”
Doctor and health team suspended
News | 18 September 2018
Community healthcare workers demand full-time employment
“We do all the dirty jobs in clinics yet we are not being recognised”
Brief | 13 September 2018
Ignorance about people with HIV still exists in 2018
“It was like I was dirty … I had no choice but to leave home”
News | 7 September 2018
Authorities respond after residents shut down clinic
Port Elizabeth clinic is plagued by crime
Brief | 24 August 2018
Paramedics seen as soft targets by criminals on the Cape Flats
City has 16 “red zones” where ambulances need police escorts
News | 15 August 2018