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Learners and kitchen staff fall sick as sewage surrounds Soshanguve school feeding scheme
Keletso Mkhwanazi
For the past five years, more than 800 learners and staff at Seetsa sa Kgwedi Primary School in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, have been living with recurring sewage spills on the school grounds. School governing body (SGB) chairperson, Kehwile Ramaru told Health-e News that three learners in Grades R to
No clinic in Campbell means missed school and extra travel costs for Musina families
Bernard Chiguvare
Limpopo. Once a month, Neria Amon’s Grade 9 daughter misses school to accompany her mother and four-month-old twin siblings to Musina Hospital for their routine check-ups. Amon, a single mother who survives on social grants, cannot carry both babies on her own. She lives in Campbell township, about 10km from
The hidden cost of public healthcare: Limpopo woman misses treatment when transport money runs out
Adina Aphane
55-year-old Dinah Mlambo, who lives with large open growths on her knee, is supposed to travel 26.5 km from her home in Zebediela, Limpopo to a clinic two to three times a week for wound care. But since losing her job in February this year because of the pain and
Part 7 | ‘No hunger here’ – How a Lenasia community garden helps unemployed families put food on the table
Lerato Kodisang
For unemployed father of three, Ramsenyane Lefenya, volunteering at a community garden in Lenasia South close to Johannesburg, means there are fresh vegetables to take home to his family every day. The 34-year-old father of three children aged 7, 9 and 11 depends on the R370 Social Relief of Distress
‘When She Can’t Breathe, I Carry Her’ – Living without Basic Services in Sanco-Ville
Thabang Thembani
Free State. Every time Phumza Manana suffers an asthma attack, her partner, Mhlangabezi Mgibiza has to carry her through the narrow footpaths of Sanco-ville informal settlement to the nearest place an ambulance can reach. The couple, who have lived in a shack in the settlement since 2020, get by without
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