Health
Eastern Cape villagers must wait two months or walk miles to clinics
With only three mobile clinics to serve 93 places in Intsika Yethu, weekly visits are not possible
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana
Brief | 19 October 2018
Stutterheim protesters burn municipal offices and clinic over lack of jobs
“Unfortunately the clinic mistakenly burnt down but it was never the plan”
News | 18 October 2018
Tension in Hillbrow after residents attack drug dealers
Drug dealers and users have moved one block further away from where they were
News | 15 October 2018
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