Representatives from more than 20 organisations including farmers’ cooperatives, waste pickers associations and unions recently marched to Times Media Group and Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) offices to protest fast food advertising and high food prices.
After being diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), Olebogeng Selumi was recently discharged from the Northern Cape’s Kimberley Hospital. Back at home, it is a daily struggle to stay on treatment – and keep his family safe.
As the world prepares to mark the annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence, the rural community of Wrenchville outside Kuruman mourns the death of another young woman.
Residents of the Northern Cape’s Lorato Park have refused to pay municipal bils until raw sewage alledgedly flooding their yards is clearned up.
Almost a year after South African media reported that the elderly were using condom lubrication for arthritis relief, Northern Cape health workers continue to report that condom myths abound in rural mining areas.
Sam Segopolo needed help – that everyone knew. When he did not get treatment for what his family and community say was a mental illness – it may have killed him.
Sex workers are asking for representation on the Northern Cape’s John Taolo Gaetsewe District AIDS Council as sex work soars in local mining community.
HIV, post-natal depression and unemployment are just some of the reasons why mums abandon babies. In Kuruman, Northern Cape, one baby narrowly escaped with her life after being left to die.
Nine-year old Danielle Brink of Wrenchville in Kuruman can no longer go to school because of kidney failure.
The use of the herb Kgaba among rural women to induce labour is cause for concern as it is thought that the severe labour pains it brings on can cause foetal distress, harm the uterus and increase the likelikhood of Caesarean section.
Ten brand new ambulances donated to the Kuruman Hospital by the John Taolo Gaetsewe Developmental Trust last December are still standing unused at the back of the hospital.
It is freezing cold and the patients at Bankhara Community Clinic have to wait outside because the space is very small.
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