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About 35 hospitals and clinics are crime hotspots in Gauteng

Patient strangles nurse until she lost consciousness at Pholosong Hospital in Tsakane. Nelisiwe Msomi reports.

Mothers and their babies at risk

The Limpopo health department denies there a shortage of medication crucial for mothers who’ve just given birth. They have just 72 hours to take it after delivery, but a hospital in Limpopo is allegedly sending patients home without it.

Fighting stunting and obesity with food

Non-profit organisation (NPO), Meals on Wheels Community Services South Africa is dedicated to providing wholesome dishes to impoverished people in Limpopo.

Lusikisiki Village Clinic: The seven-year fight for a permanent clinic ends

The community protested, activists threatened legal action and a settlement was reached. Seven years later, the newly built permanent Village Clinic is opened.

Blind elderly woman left in the dark

“Ever since I moved back into my house six year ago, life has been difficult,” says Mita Mokape.

10 questions about Sizani Universal Healthcare — the DA’s answer to NHI

The Democratic Alliance has been fiercely opposed to the National Health Insurance Bill. But the official opposition party’s alternative leaves many unanswered questions. Eleanor Whyle, Manya van Ryneveld and Leanne Brady break it down.

Health workers sell foreign parents free baby health booklet

“As we were being discharged, the nurse told my partner and me that we must pay the R621 because we are not South African,” says a young mother.

Tackling depression: ‘If people aren’t told to pray, they’re told they’re bewitched’

When Motheo Lengoasa was referred to a psychiatric hospital for depression, she refused to go, saying she was not crazy. But, she realises that was a misconception writes Pamela Mkhize.

Retired teacher helps her community to eat better

As more and more people turn to community gardening; an elderly former teacher has already been doing it for the past eight years to encourage people to eat healthier food.

Organic farmer encourages youth to get into food gardening

“The health of the land is linked to people’s health and future.” This is Khaya Mposula’s ethos, an organic farmer in the Eastern Cape.

Caring for children whose parents succumb to drugs and alcohol

“They can’t read, they can’t write, and actually they are in the wrong school,” says Angela Salter, founder of the Adonai Crisis Centre which looks after children whose parents abuse alcohol and drugs.

Families of deceased firefighters looking for closure

Loved ones are finding it hard to move on a year after three firefighters died while trying to distinguish a fire at the Bank of Lisbon building, which housed the Gauteng health department.

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