Tongaat Hulett bosses must ‘pay back the money’
The financial scandal of South Africa’s largest sugar producer hurts its blue-collar employees, who are already marginalised and at risk of non-communicable diseases, the most.
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HEALA: Act against Big Food tactics that target kids
As the South African commemorates Child Protection Week activists call for policy framework that protects children from harmful marketing by Big Food industry.
Chef cooks up recipe for healthy tuck shop
Mother and chef health guru Labani Mgimeti has taken it upon herself to revolutionise a school tuck shop from a den of sodas and junk food to a haven of health food.
Food justice is a pipe dream without tackling industry
The lack of access to healthy food is a cause and a symptom of South Africa's inequalities which further proves the fight for affordable nutritious food is a social justice issue.
The struggle for hypertension in South Africa
Tackling hypertension nationally and globally will require innovative thinking that looks at the condition as a socio-economic and systemic issue.
Will villages across SA remain without water after elections?
South Africans want actual change as the dust of elections settles, but will it come? Especially for those who live far from metropolitan cities where a perpetual state of "Day Zero" has become the norm.
Teens’ ARV abuse shocks parents
Residents in Seodin, a village near Kuruman, are concerned that their children are stealing antiretroviral tablets (ARVs) to mix them with highly addictive drugs such as nyaope and whoonga.
Elections Cheat Sheet: Your guide to a feminist vote
Many South African women and queer people may find themselves in a conundrum about which political party to give your “X” to on May 8. Here's a quick cheat sheet to help you make a pro-women, pro-queer choice.
More than plaster to fix rural healthcare
As the seasons change and summer becomes a distant memory, May elections creep closer. Campaign posters line the roadways and fight for space on telephone poles of every city and village.
Easter: How much chocolate is too much?
It’s Easter time and children (and adults) are gearing up for an Easter egg hunt, but how much chocolate is too much and what constitutes a sugar binge versus a treat?
MSF: Secret medicine prices cost lives
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is calling upon governments to put an end to the secrecy that rules in the field of pharmaceutical products when they meet this week at the World Health Organisation Fair Pricing Forum to discuss access to essential medicines.
TB patients still shunned by families
Despite South Africa being the only country in the world to make a new TB drug available to all who have drug-resistant TB, many TB patients are still avoided by their families.
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.
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.
Eskom’s Suffocating Stranglehold
Eskom’s cluster of 12 coal-fired power stations in Mpumalanga is the biggest source of nitrogen dioxide pollution in the world, according to environmental rights organisation Greenpeace.