The Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss in Southern Africa has stepped in to secure sponsorship for six-year-old Ruben Scheepers’ life-changing cochlear implant operation. Watch him hear for the first time in this video.
It's African Traditional Medicine Week and a traditional healer in Limpopo is warning people not to use traditional medicine without consulting a trained practitioner, as this could have a devastating impact on their health.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) was left with no choice but to report the Mpumalanga Department of Health to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), after it rejected the party’s concerns about the shortage of medicine at clinics and hospitals.
Written by three women, 'Flow: the book about menstruation' is aimed at revolutionising the conversation about menstruation and helping people better understand of the often-taboo topic.
South Africans are urged to become organ donors and give someone the gift of life, as COVID-19 continues to severely impact organ donations and transplant activity.
Nursing wasn’t her first choice but the profession soon won Ntombiyethu Mtambo over and the young nurse hasn’t looked back. She realised that helping people is a God-given gift and believes her passion will help make a difference in years to come.
While residents in Limpopo live in a nightmare of overflowing sewage and no running water, ANC councillors have been accused of being too busy bickering instead of attending to infrastructure issues plaguing Mahwelereng.
Free State Health MEC, Tate Makgoe, has expressed his concern at the rising number of COVID-19 cases in several schools and has urged learners to exercise extreme caution as the virus continues to batter the province.
A group of bikers in Mpumalanga have joined forces with the province’s health department to encourage people to get the COVID-19 jab.
Patients can resume their chronic treatment after the St Mary’s Hospital in Mariannhill in KwaZulu-Natal announced that a letter confirming their unemployed status is required in order to qualify for free medication.
Last month the National Department of Health’s Director of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis (DR-TB), Dr Norbert Ndjeka, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cape Town for his work in the field of DR-TB treatment.
Youngsters from Limpopo say they are ready to line up for the jab as government opens its COVID-19 vaccination rollout to individuals aged between 18 to 34.
In celebration of Women’s Month, NPO Tsa Semzini decided to return to the communities its members hail from to donate dignity packs consisting of feminine hygiene products to 1 000 schoolgirls.
The family of Sam Junior Mbatha has called on the public and friends of the LGBTQI community for support as the main suspect in their son's murder prepares to appear in court next week. They also hope justice will prevail not only for their son, but for all those killed based on their sexuality.
The Kagiso Trust has come to the aid of children living with autism who were left stranded when their old school, the Blaize Academy for Autism and Children with Learning Barriers in Bloemfontein, closed down almost a year ago.
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