The Lusikisiki community waited in vain last week for a much-anticipated sod turning ceremony, the first promised step towards the new Village Clinic building. According to community members and activists Health MEC Sicelo Gqobana had promised to kick off the…
A traumatised family shared details on how they were forced to hire a car to rush a poisoned family member to hospital after they were told there were no ambulances available. It appears as if Mankweng Hospital only has two…
Bethlehem – The community of Vergeet Nie farm, about 30 km from Bethlehem, has a very limited water supply and makeshift toilets. “There is a problem of water supply here in this farm, despite being promised a water tank by…
For the past three years, there has been no rubbish removal in Imbali Unit 13 in Pietermaritzburg, and residents dump their rubbish all over the streets. Rubbish is all over the place and there is a strong smell, yet kids…
Residents in Kestell have resorted to throwing their garbage on the side of the streets in Kestell. Mpho Matobako one of the residents in Kestell’s new stands complained of the stench coming from the rubbish heap on the road side.…
Two years ago, 19-year-old Lindiwe Mkhasi had to drop out of school to parent her two younger siblings after their mother’s death. “In 2011 March, my mother died. The reason behind her dying was because she had AIDS and her…
Bethlehem – In March this year OurHealth reported on the poor water and sanitation in Bethlehem in the Free State that affects the Captain Charles community, better known as the Baipeing community. On a follow-up visit to the Baipeing community,…
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in Limpopo is threatening to boycott traditional initiation schools in the province if more lives are lost in these schools. In a statement issues this week, the league‘s secretary in the province Klaas…
Mpumalanga provincial department of aims to circumcise 500 000 males for the financial year 2013 For the province to reach this targets, it needs to circumcised 75 000 males per month, 18 750 per week and 3 750 daily .…
Illegal advertising of the termination of pregnancy in the North West has prompted action from the Department of Health, National Prosecuting Authority, South African Police Service and other Government departments, which held a peaceful march from Rustenburg town main taxi…
SOSHANGUVE. Two shop owners in Diemplaza were badly beaten with broken bottles by five robbers, who are believed to be nyaope addicts.. Community sources said that the five men armed with guns arrived in a Toyota Venture at the complex…
It is 7am on a Thursday morning and the antenatal clinic is packed. Pregnant women are all seated on their rows, the chairs carefully assembled. But something is eye-catching: amongst the pregnant women is a man accompanying his partner, a…
Following a report by OurHealth in February about the disgraceful state of toilets at Matavhela Secondary School, new toilets are in the process of being built. In April, materials were brought to the school for the new toilets to be…
BETHLEHEM – Yoliswa Mazibuko*, who lives in Bethlehem in the Free State has to put her health at risk to provide for her family. Being a single parent to three children has led her to a job she never pictured…
BETHLEHEM – Bisimillah Supermarket in Bethlehem is illegally selling Melegi Infant Formula marked with the stamp: “State use only, not for re-sale”. When OurHealth visited the supermarket, there were four 400g tins of Melegi on the shelves waiting to be sold,…
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