Informal gold miners working around old mine dumps between Nyakallong and Allanridge in the Free State say they risk exposure to mine dust, mercury and other chemicals while trying to earn enough money to support their families. At 48, Thabo*…
Two families in Nyakallong, Free State, are mourning the deaths of two young boys who drowned in a mine dam near Harmony Gold’s Target 2 Rock Dump in Allanridge. Thabo Diloko, 9, and Lethabo Abrahams, 8, died after four boys…
Sewage is still spilling into the yards of residents in Nyakallong in the Free State despite a High Court ruling against the municipality, intervention by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the municipality being placed under administration. Residents…
Free State. Every time Phumza Manana suffers an asthma attack, her partner, Mhlangabezi Mgibiza has to carry her through the narrow footpaths of Sanco-ville informal settlement to the nearest place an ambulance can reach. The couple, who have lived in…
For some children at a Nyakallong school in the Free State, the school term means at least one guaranteed meal a day. When caregivers at the We Care Daycare Centre, based at S.A Mokhothu Primary School, realised that children’s need…
According to resident residents, the sewer spillage is getting worse and flooding Freedom Square Township.
Homeless are among the most vulnerable to illness.
Learners would at Kgorathuto school for registers to be taken, and were then sent home.
Community Health Workers remain trapped in a cycle of short-term contracts with no clarity about long-term employment.
This is not the first case of a nurse being assaulted by an unhappy patient at Thabong Clinic.
The health department has not yet hired more staff, citing budget constraints.
Conditions in the men’s toilets are reportedly worse. Tshepiso Leoli says they’re unusable, due to blocked drainage.
The provincial health department says the local municipality is responsible for providing water to Masilo Clinic.
The family is demanding that the nurses who turned Mpho away be suspended.
The ceiling is leaking, and workers are worried that it can fall. The walls are damaged, and the grass around the hospital building is overgrown.
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