Blocked manhole causes health concern

A blocked manhole in the yard of a Jouberton family has remained unattended, and the family has lived in a stinking - and what it believes is an unhealthy - environment for nine weeks.

A blocked manhole in the yard of a Jouberton family has remained unattended, and the family has lived in a stinking - and what it believes is an unhealthy - environment for nine weeks.

Orkney – Hearing-impaired four-year old Phatsimo Ntlhane will be able to carry on attending the special school Eduplex in Pretoria after receiving a huge donation to cover school fees.

Residents of Jouberton have resorted to dumping rubbish illegally because there are not enough municipal trucks to take rubbish away. The unhealthy living conditions in this, the largest township in the City of Maslosana are cause for concern.

John Taolo Gaetsewe district has the highest teenage pregnancy in the Northern Cape. This is according to HIV and AIDS district coordinator Sonia Makoko during a teenage pregnancy dialouge in Maruping community Hall in Kuruman.

Young men have been flocking to Gola Monna Clinic in Tshepong since the start of the school holidays, requesting circumcisions.

North West Province took delivery of its first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, making long trips to neighbouring provinces thing of the past.

Illegal advertising of the termination of pregnancy in the North West has prompted action from the Department of Health, National Prosecuting Authority, South African Police Service and other Government departments, which held a peaceful march from Rustenburg town main taxi…

Rotary Clubs of Klerksdorp and Orkney, together with the Department of Health, took part in a nationwide campaign to take free services to people of Jouberton, near Klerksdorp in the North West over the weekend.