Ex addicts use drama to beat nyaope habit

TSHWANE - A group of four ex-addicts, who used to be nyaope users in Tshwane’s Hammanskraal area, started a drama group as part their healing journey.
TSHWANE - A group of four ex-addicts, who used to be nyaope users in Tshwane’s Hammanskraal area, started a drama group as part their healing journey.
Upgrades to the Magalies Water Purification Plant near Hammanskraal are expected to bring relief to water insecure communities not only in Gauteng but in the North West’s Moretele Local Municipality.
Missing furniture is being blamed for delaying the opening of Soshanguve’s new Block JJ Clinic, which was slated to re-open last year.
Dozens of Tshwane patients face a long, hot wait daily for services at Mabopane's Tlamelong Clinic as the facility runs short of space and chairs.
After Dr George Mukhari Hospital casualty patients complain of long waiting times, the Gauteng Department of Health has denied the hospital’s emergency section is overcrowded.
The Gauteng Department of Health has dispatched environmental health officers to the homes of recent typhoid patients to screen family and neighbours for possible new cases of the bacterial infection.
Gauteng's Jubilee District Hospital recently marked six decades of community service north of Pretoria.
Medical male circumcision campaigns have an added bonus, say HIV activists who add that as more and more men line up for “the snip”– more men are learning their HIV statuses.
The Odi District Hospital outside Pretoria recently gave patients a lesson on how to complain at its annual Open Day.
The Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has embarked on a public road show to educate patients on their rights. The move comes amid recent stiff criticism of the body.
Almost a year after hundreds of patient files were found stacked in the toilet of a Soshanguve clinic, renovations to expand the township’s Block X Clinic have begun.
When you spend long hours behind the wheel of a taxi, eating right can be the last thing on your mind but that is why a Tshwane clinic may have found an unlikely ally for a recent health promotion campaign.