March and March deny high-risk baby health care
The family is from Ethiopia and is in the country legally as an asylum seeker. She showed her papers, as well as the baby’s clinic card and Road to Health book.
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Siphilisiwe Community Care is a lifeline for the homeless in South Beach, Durban
Volunteers at the organisation assist with preparing meals, distributing food and checking in on vulnerable individuals living on the streets.Â
‘No parent should feel alone’: The struggles of raising children with autism
For many parents, education is one of the most difficult hurdles. Specialised schools are few, often far away, and have limited intakes.Â
After daughter’s death, Limpopo mother wants support for families raising children with disabilities
Maake says she wants her daughter to be remembered for the joy she brought into people’s lives.
Drowning risk over Easter: How to stay safe at beaches, rivers and damsÂ
Government warnings highlight the Easter holidays as a high-risk period, urging the public last year to stay away from swollen rivers and dams after heavy rains.
Orange Farm reflects a bigger problem of rising obesity among South African adolescentsÂ
Many children are eating sweets, snacks, sugary drinks and other processed food from a young age.
Broken floors, pit toilets and no electricity risk EC learners’ health and safety
Years after a court ruling affirmed learners’ right to safe school infrastructure, two schools near King William’s Town still expose learners and teachers to unsafe and unhealthy conditions.
Drug use outside Durban school sparks safety fears
Parents fear that this behaviour exposes learners to substance abuse and poses serious safety and health hazards.
Simple hearing checks help prevent learning struggles in Vhembe schools
These behaviours are sometimes interpreted as poor concentration or learning problems, when in reality the child may simply be struggling to hear.Â
Mahikeng mother blames sewage-filled RDP house for infant’s death
The mother says she was exposed to the sewage-contaminated environment throughout her pregnancy.
Floods destroy community-built bridge in Soshanguve
Volunteers spent hours moving heavy rocks to create a crossing over a sewage-contaminated river.
Extreme heat is taking a toll on children’s health in South Africa
Children have a limited capacity to tolerate extreme heat compared with adults.
South Gauteng learners supplement school lunches with leftover cooking oil from fast-food outlets
Learners at high schools around Finetown and Lenasia in the south of Johannesburg are using leftover cooking oil to add flavour to their school nutrition programme lunch. Some children have been eating this residue for more than five years in…
‘We are sick’: Life in South Africa’s coal heartland
In recent years, there have been growing calls to shut down coal power stations and transition to renewable energy.
No teaching at Botshabelo school for nine months due to water shortagesÂ
Learners would at Kgorathuto school for registers to be taken, and were then sent home.Â