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.
Children, especially in rural areas, are turning away from school feeding schemes because they fear being judged for being poor by their fellow learners, despite being hungry. HEALTH-E NEWS spoke to learners and experts about the stigma of hunger and its effect on children's health and education.
JOHANNESBURG - As increasing numbers of African people embrace Western life over traditional customs, so they are exposed to a number of new chronic conditions and illnesses.
NORTH WEST - Doctors reporting for duty at Tshepong Hospital in North West on Thursday morning had to be escorted into the facility by police after striking workers blockaded the premises, turning patients and workers way.
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.
LIMPOPO – Despite most public libraries now offering hope to visually impaired people through the South African Libraries For The Blind Project, many blind people in rural areas remain unemployed with limited opportunities.
Destruction of property and acts of intimidation that accompanied National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union’s recent strike at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital has been harshly condemned.
The murder of a 13-year-old albino girl and the theft of body parts from a 28-year-old albino man hours after he was buried has Mpumalanga residents angry and fearing for the lives of other albino people.
Poor nutrition in early childhood has a number of negative consequences for people later in life, according to Professor Daniela Casale, from Wits University’s School of Economic and Business Sciences.
Corruption, medicine shortages, healthworkers being barred from treating patients – the public healthcare sector in the North West province has been in crisis for weeks. Health-e News’s GRAEME MAKAM reports.
NORTH WEST - Breeding chickens at home, also known as backyard poultry farming, has come under the spotlight following this week’s recall of over 200-million eggs in the US.
MPUMALANGA – “I remember the last time my mother disappeared. People from a nearby community found her walking alone in the middle of the night naked. She couldn’t remember her own name and because she was naked people thought she was a witch. They wanted to burn her alive.”
As protests across North West province increase along with demands for Premier Supra Mahumapelo to resign, the province's embattled health sector is feeling pain.
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.
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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