Coke promises, MPs chastise
Coca Cola promises to promote diet and zero drinks while MPs lash industry representatives, as Parlimant continues to wrestle with the sugary drinks tax
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Pensioner in court for child’s rape
As the country marks the end of Child Protection week, residents of Tsakane in Ekurhuleni took to the streets in protest as a 61 year-old man made his second appearance in court, charged with raping an 8-year-old girl.
Sugar tax: 10 reasons why the job losses argument doesn’t stick
Amid job losses claims, experts speculate why the levy may not result in job cuts.
Industry to blame sugar tax for global job cuts?
Unions and government are on the look-out for industry using job loss claims as an excuse to fire workers in the name of profit.
The Challenge of Making Africa Smoke-Free
“There’s no doubt that the tobacco industry is losing huge influence in richer countries, as fewer people use tobacco than ever before. The harsh reality, however, is that the industry is now getting away with aggressively exploiting less wealthy countries.” Olalekan Ayo-Yusuf, Harry Lando and Gan Quan discuss…
Department warns of health jobs scam
People responding to adverts for jobs at some of Gauteng’s hospitals in exchange for a deposit fee will be swindled as the offers are bogus and have not been made by the Gauteng Department of Health.
Sex workers to remain ‘criminals’?
Government has been advised not to decriminalise sex work in the very week that a special clinic for sex workers and drug users was opened in Cape Town.
Sugar tax still on track despite ‘scare tactics’
The beverage industry has used “massive scare tactics” to fight a tax on sugary drinks, but it must now “come to the party” and cut the sugar content of its drinks.
Malaria count up to 2000 since April
LIMPOPO – While the number of patients reporting to clinics and hospitals with malaria in Mopani is dropping, the provincial health department remains concerned as the battle to end the current outbreak continues.
Killed for being gay
While recent reports on the murder of part-time student Karabo Mokoena - whose body was discovered after she was burnt to death with acid with a tyre around her neck - have had South Africans reeling in horror, another equally disturbing murder has passed quietly by.
A mother’s fight to break autism stigma
A Joburg mother, who is learning to cope after one of her three children was diagnosed with autism, is campaigning to break the stigma associated with the disorder.
Who stands for stunted kids and obese adults?
Stunted kids grow into fat adults, indicative of a nutritional crisis government does not know how to address. Are there no champions for NCDs because they mostly affect women, the old and fat?
Happy ending for ganglion cysts patient
Sbongeleni Myeni (25) from Jozini, north of KwaZulu Natal, is thrilled by the prospect of being able to proudly wear a wrist watch after a painful ganglion cyst that has bothered him for nine years has finally been removed.
Action to guard women using taxis
No security at taxi ranks, taxi organisations not recognised as legal entities, ongoing attacks, inadequate police response – these were among the reasons why women are not safe in taxis.
Supersized South Africa
Fat adults and stunted toddlers - the impact of South Africans' poor diet is reverberating around the country