These learners will not drop out of school this year
LIMPOPO - Many learners in deep rural villages in Vhembe drop out of school every winter for no reason other than they have no shoes and cannot walk to school barefoot in the biting cold.
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Gum disease can be prevented
MPUMALANGA - Many moms say they are not aware of gum disease when their children are diagnosed with the condition, unaware that it can be easily prevented by good dental hygiene and brushing twice a day.
Limpopo Health cuts ties with ARVs distributor
LIMPOPO - The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will be monitoring the readiness of public health facilities in Moutse before the Department of Health begins the process of transferring HIV patients from the Ndlovu Care Group into public health facilities of their choice.
One woman’s feeding quest through an inner-city farm
Hidden away in the Joburg inner city, unknown to thousands of people who pass by every day, is a small farm producing massive quantities of fresh vegetables and healthy juices.
Mentally ill man left alone after mom’s death
LIMPOPO – The plight of a 27-year-old mentally and physically handicapped man from Mpheni village, outside Louis Trichard is growing increasingly worse as nobody is looking after him and a loan shark retains possession of his social grant card.
Mineworkers to get compensation – finally
Two days after Workers’ Day, South Africa’s biggest ever class action settlement was reached, offering compensation to mineworkers who contracted silicosis or tuberculosis on gold mines from 12 March 1965.
African women: UNAIDS head Michel Sidibé must go!
Following a sexual harassment investigation at UNAIDS gone wrong, 23 leading African women activists believe executive director cannot be trusted to lead the world’s foremost agency fighting AIDS
Stigma hinders rehabilitation of rural disabled
The stigma attached to disabled people in rural communities is proving to be a real problem for caregivers in Limpopo who are being hampered in their efforts to help and educate.
Family to appeal ruling in school toilet case
LIMPOPO - The Komape family, with the help of Section27, is set to appeal the judgment handed by the Polokwane High Court dismissing their claim for R3-million compensation for the death of five-year-old Michael Komape who drowned in a pit toilet at school.
Zuma’s ‘baby mama’ is ordered to resign
She Conquers was formed to combat the high rate of HIV among young women, driven in large part by ‘inter-generational’ relationships with much older men, so the campaign was disturbed to learn that one of its leaders has been having a relationship with Jacob Zuma, 52 years’ her senior.
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‘Food apartheid’ is stoking violence
Hunger is driving violence and entrenching the social divides created by apartheid, as under-nourished children are unable to catch up to their peers.
Welfare system fails rural orphans
While it takes 30 working days for a foster care grant to be processed, checked and either approved or refused, the system has failed four orphan children from rural Tzaneen for well over a year.
VIDEO: A hungry, violent South Africa
Studies find there are links between the rising levels of hunger and violence in South Africa.
Smoking to be ‘cool’
Peer pressure, curiosity and wanting to “look cool” were the main reasons young people were sucking on cigarettes outside False Bay College gave as reasons for starting to smoke.