Sheila Gumbi watched her son change before her eyes as her once sweet baby boy became increasingly aggressive. She now knows why but being able to name her son’s addiction has not given her the power to stop it.
City of Cape Town warnings that it will seek to clarify legislation around e-cigarettes and hookah pipes is a responsible move, writes Dr Dominique Stott, executive for medical standards at the Professional Provident Society financial services company.
After weeks of lobbying by civil society organisations, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has decided to open its draft food security plan for public comment.
The public comment period on the 164-page draft policy closes 24 April 2015.
Activists have alleged that only five civil society organisations were invited to today’s public consultation on government’s new food policy.
South Africa’s Constitution is one of just 20 in the world that recognises the right to food, but realising that right will mean re-thinking agriculture and re-connecting with the source of our food, writes Busiso Moyo with the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute think tank.
Life has been an uphill fight for eight-year-old Sonke Shongwe who was born paralysed from the waist down. For him and many disabled children across the country, getting a wheelchair is only the first step.
February marked the one-year anniversary of her brother’s death due to AIDS-related illnesses, but Sazi Mnyageni says she keeps her brother’s memory alive every time she counsels a person on HIV.
As South Africa marks World Kidney Day, only about a third of those living with kidney conditions are receiving life-saving dialysis.
Dagga may have some medicinal qualities, but are the benefits of legalising it worthwhile?
People who use high-potency cannabis (“skunk”) every day are five times more likely to have a schizophrenia-like psychotic episode than those who don’t, according to new research.
Rebontsheng Primary School parents and school officials have begun to regulate what food and sweets vendors sell students following the death of a child who reportedly choked on a toy inside a sweet.
The minister of planning, monitoring and evaluation and National Planning Commission chairperson have launched a call for nominations of individuals to serve on the National Planning Commission. The deadline for submissions is 10 April.
When children in foster care turn 18, they lose their grants and are expected to become “instant adults”. This is a very difficult time as many foster children are still at school and lack the skills to support themselves.
Lebohang Manyaka gave birth to a baby boy at Germiston’s Bertha Gxowa Hospital but he vanished right after birth. Weeks later, she was called to identify a dead baby - but she does not know if this is her child or what happened to him if it is her baby.
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