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From clinics to public health: Concerns grow over anti-migrant campaign
Adel Van Niekerk
Healthcare workers, humanitarian organisations and migrants are warning that South Africa’s anti-migrant campaign is beginning to disrupt access to healthcare, raising concerns about interrupted chronic health treatment and broader public health. The warnings follow the 30 June deadline set by anti-migrant groups for undocumented migrants to leave South Africa. Days
Zimbabwean Migrants In Louis Trichardt Fear Losing Access To Health Services
Bernard Chiguvare
Zimbabwean immigrants living in Louis Trichardt say they are being turned away from clinics or told their latest chronic medication collection will be their last, raising fears that anti-immigrant pressure is starting to affect access to healthcare. The concern follows the 30 June deadline set by anti-immigrant groups for undocumented
Roodepoort mother speaks about life with a stoma after childbirth complications
Adina Aphane
A Roodepoort mother is speaking out about life with a stoma after childbirth, saying the condition has changed how she mothers, works and manages her life. Phemelo Seane, 28, says she has been living with a stoma since 2024 after suffering severe childbirth complications at a local public hospital following
At 115, Nompilo Maleka from Limpopo Is No Ordinary Village Gogo
Thomo Nkgadima
Nompilo Maleka is no ordinary granny. The 115-year-old great-grandmother from Driekop outside Burgersfort in Limpopo still wakes up early in the morning, makes her bed, washes dishes and cooks. A copy of her green ID book, seen by Health-e news, records her date of birth as 14 April 1911. The
Op-Ed: There Is No Universal Healthcare Without Disability Inclusion
Dr. Bulela Vava
The curtain on my long-standing career as a public health service employee after more than a decade spent championing the health rights of the most vulnerable, has drawn to a close. But it closes with sobering thoughts about what we have achieved and what we are yet to. On 22
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