Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) has agreed to accept a disabled student it previously said could not attend classes due to a lack of wheelchair access on campus. The decision comes following a high-level meeting between administration and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).
It began with two children and developed into a passion. Now, Annah Ndlovu is hoping to translate her passion for children into real change in her community of Soshanguve outside Pretoria.
Martha and her 17-year-old daughter are living with HIV. When they come to the Kopano Lerato centre, they feel accepted and supported. Now, the community-based organisation is in danger of closing.
As municipal taps remain dry, Hammanskraal communities outside Pretoria continue to go to great lengths for drinking water.
Tshwane health services set an ambitious goal to test more than 10,000 people in one day ahead of World AIDS Day and break the international world record.
Months after Ourhealth reported about longstanding illegal dumping sites flanking schools in Stinkwater outside Pretoria, the community has taken the problem into its own hands and started neighbourhood clean up campaigns.
Thandi* Maringa had returned home after three years of living on the streets. Although she was safely home, she could not outrun the consequences of life on the street that her family says ultimately killed her.
A recent trip to the Dr. George Mukhari Hospital emergency room has restored Kamogelo Dira’s* faith in the public health system.
Deputy Health Minister Dr Joseph Phaahla recently handed over two obstetric ambulances to the Hammanskraal community outside Pretoria. According to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel, the ambulances designed to save the lives of mothers and babies join a fleet of just 20 for the province.
More than a month after OurHealth first reported on long wait times at Tshwane District Hospital, patients allege that the problem persists.
As the South African Department of Basic Education prepares to launch a national deworming campaign, a Tshwane family is proof the problem of parasitic worms is not just a rural one.
Some Tshwane drug dealers are allegedly giving nyaope away free to keep users hooked, say two young men from outside Hammanskraal who say they are ready to get clean.
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