Determinants Of Health

Homes, lives lost in Limpopo flooding

Determinants Of Health

Vhembe. ' A Limpopo man has spoken of how he held his wife as she died in his arms after heavy rains caused a wall of their house to collapse on top of her. Edzani Musetsho said he was unable to get her to hospital because the bridge that leads out of their village was swept away by the flood water.

Health-e News
January 30, 2013

Nelspruit hospital without water, 4 weeks now

Determinants Of Health

Media Release: The SA Medical Association (SAMA) has stressed its frustration and disappointment about the current situation at Themba Hospital in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, which has been without water since 4 January 2013. The association has therefore urged the MEC and the Provincial Department of Health in Mpumalanga to address this dire situation - a serious health risk to both the institution's patients and doctors.

Health-e News
January 30, 2013

Water restored to Matavhela and Mufulwi

Determinants Of Health, Health Systems, Our Health

Vhembe - Villagers from Matavhela and Mufulwi have had their tap water supplies restored after alerting OurHealth that they had to rely on unsafe rain and river water.

Health-e News
November 15, 2012

Stinky toilets for primary school

Determinants Of Health, Health Systems, Our Health

OurHealth - Itlotliseng Primary School learners in Tseki village, Phuthaditjhaba (Qwa-Qwa) in the Free State have to every day deal with dirty toilets and unreliable access to water.

Health-e News
November 1, 2012

De Lille admits janitor services stink

Determinants Of Health, Health Systems

Mayor Patricia de Lille has admitted that the City's janitorial services in informal services needed to be jacked up and her office has taken over the monitoring of this service.

Health-e News
October 4, 2012

City janitor rollout stinks – SJC

Determinants Of Health, Health, Health Systems

CAPE TOWN - A landmark daily janitorial service for communal toilets in the City's informal settlements - launched with great fanfare in May by Mayor Patricia de Lille - has come to a grinding halt.

Health-e News
September 19, 2012

Health risks facing urban population

Determinants Of Health

A Medical Research Council (MRC) study warns that as more people move into the cities, their health challenges will become dire. The community of Hospital Hill, in Johannesburg, is a case in point. More than 90 % of the residents live in urban poverty and are unemployed.

ayandamkhwanazi
September 5, 2012

Water and sanitation undermines health efforts

Determinants Of Health, Health, Health Systems

South African health officials have failed to advocate for more free water while efforts to improve sanitation have been undermined by lack of funds, resulting in high levels of disease and mortality mainly among the poor.

kerrycullinan
June 5, 2012

All need to play part in climate change

Climate Change, Determinants Of Health

INTRO: It is predicted that the effects of climate change will cause serious health impacts on society. According to researchers, everyone needs to take responsibility to change their behaviour so that the impacts of climate change can be lessened.

ayandamkhwanazi
May 7, 2012

City of Jo’burg aims for safer environment

Determinants Of Health

The city of Jo'burg says climate change is no longer a possibility, but a reality. It has urged communities to partner with it to protect the environment and to alleviate the impacts of climate change

ayandamkhwanazi
May 2, 2012

Access to water and sanitation a human right – UN

Determinants Of Health

The U.N. General Assembly has declared access to safe, clean drinking water and sanitation to be a "'human right' in a resolution that more than 40 countries including the United States didn't support. South Africa did support it.

Health-e News
August 4, 2010

Deathly effects of no toilets

Determinants Of Health, Health Systems

Diarrhoea, death, disability. Anso Thom uncovers the indignity of living without sanitation.

ansothom
June 9, 2010

A – Z of toilets

Determinants Of Health, Health Systems

Several stories plot the toilet saga in Khayelitsha including a timeline, the A to Z of toilet types and the questions sent to the mayor.

Anso Thom
June 9, 2010

Cape Town fails toilet test

Determinants Of Health, Health Systems

Most of the sanitation technologies provided to informal settlements in Cape Town do not meet the standards of basic sanitation. This is either due to the higher household: toilet ratios, the technology itself, the condition and location of the sanitation infrastructure, or the way in which it is serviced.

Health-e News
June 9, 2010

RR Section: Almost no toilets

Determinants Of Health, Health Systems

RR Section is flanked by Lansdowne Road and Mew Way, both major arteries through the sprawling township of Khayelitsha. Ramshackle shacks are tightly knit with eroded and sodden dirt roads and footpaths cutting between the homes with a massive uninhabitable marsh right in the middle.

ansothom
June 9, 2010

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