Health

Mining company fights Northern Cape community over asbestos

Kumba Iron Ore takes Dingleton residents to court

Text by Ashleigh Furlong. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

News | 9 February 2017

TAC calls for Roche to drop price of cancer drug

Activists say that with generic competition trastuzumab could be R3,500 per course instead of the current price of over R200,000

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News | 7 February 2017

Why the Life Esidimeni scandal was predictable

Regulation is urgently required

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Opinion | 6 February 2017

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