Good Samaritan offers support for orphans
A Vhembe man has identified 50 orphans from villages in that area that he will provide with school uniforms, food, and career guidance.
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
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Relief as needle is removed from a woman’s hand
A mother who lived with a needle in her hand for three months is relieved after a surgery that was postponed six times finally gets underway.
Doctor’s secrets to a healthy and long life
This rural doctor is used to writing scripts for medication, but he has now written a manuscript.
Let’s talk about sex, says Stop the Spot founder
LIMPOPO - To curb the spread of sexual infections and the high rate of teen pregnancies in rural villages in Vhembe district, 23-year-old student Avhasei Raphalalani is teaching young people about sex and hygiene.
Rural pre schoolers learn when touching is abuse
With rampant sexual abuse countrywide, children are often unaware that they are being abused. Armed with a teddy bear, four women from Limpopo are giving these children the chance to speak up about abuse.
Troubled Vuwani residents pledge to shun poll
Many Vuwani residents have vowed to stay at home on 8 May because of severe water shortages, sewage spills, uncollected rubbish bins and lack of essential medication at their local clinics.
Operation on ice for the fifth time
LIMPOPO - Mabula Maboyi (35) has lost hope that a needle that broke off inside her right hand will ever be removed, after her scheduled operation was postponed for the fifth time at Tshilidzini Hospital.
Beware post-Easter malaria!
If you have travelled to a warmer area over Easter, you might have contracted malaria. And as the world gets warmer, more and more people will be at risk of malaria.
Blind Rivoni learners close roads in protest
LIMPOPO: Blind learners from Rivoni School for the Blind have blocked several roads leading to Elim Hospital to protest for better accommodation and classrooms.
Huge patient operation backlog at Tshilidzini
Mabula Maboyi has been living with a broken needle inside her right hand for weeks, but she has already had the date for her operation to remove it at Tshilidzini Hospital postponed four times.
Huge patient operation backlog at Tshilidzini
Mabula Maboyi has been living with a broken needle inside her right hand for weeks, but she has already had the date for her operation to remove it at Tshilidzini Hospital postponed four times.
Drug-resistant TB hard to root out
WORLD TB DAY: Although South Africa has the highest per capita burden of drug-resistant TB in the world, there are many barriers to addressing this - as one patient found out when it took doctors two years to diagnose him.