Our Health
OurHealth is a project that trains and supports local activists and aspiring health journalists. Our citizen journalists (CJs) live in rural and poorly-covered areas in South Africa, and report on health issues affecting their communities.
KZN community suffers without municipal services
OURHEALTH. – Residents from the Shiya Bazali township face many of challenges every day. The informal settlement has no municipal services which mean no electricity, no flushing toilets and only one communal tap for the whole township. By Lungile Ngubane
Book illustrates how mental illness can be overcome
OURHEALTH. – Mashudu Maemu and Oscar Magedana wrote an inspirational book to help discourage discrimination against mental illness. Story by Ndivhuwo Musetha.
OurHealth: Counsellors demoralised by working conditions
Story by Mishack Mahlangu, the OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from the Tshwane district in Gauteng.
OurHealth: ‘Exercise keeps me young’
Story by Thamsanqa Majola, OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from Bethlehem in the Free State.
OurHealth: Patients injured in hospital bus accident
Story by Thandeka Vinjwa, OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from the OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape.
OurHealth: Discharged patients have to stay in hospital
Story by Mtshana Mvlisi, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from the OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape.
OurHealth: Organisation uplifts Mpophomeni community
Article by Lungile Ngubane, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting form the Mgungundlovu district in KwaZulu-Natal.
OurHealth: Hospital fails community
Story by Thandeka Vinjwa, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist reporting from Lusikisiki in the OR Tambo district of the Eastern Cape.
OurHealth: Traditional healer arrested in connection with rape
Story by Sydney Makgai, an OurHealth citizen journalist reporting on health issues in the Tshwane district, Gauteng.
Tshwane patients complain about poor care
Health workers urge patients of Tshwane’s Dilopye Clinic to put complaints in writing as community members continue to complain about poor care at doctor’s hands.