More than 100 people living with disabilities recently protested the lack of wheelchair access at Shoprite’s Thohoyandou branch, bringing shopping to a standstill for hours. The group is expected to resume protests today.
South Africa may see an estimated 469,000 new HIV infections annually, and young women between the ages of 15 and 24 remain hardest hit by new infections, according to the country’s latest HIV survey. Now a young Khayelitsha artist is using the stage to take HIV prevention to the streets.
Limpopo’s Vhembe District Municipality is still trying to ascertain how many people have been left homeless by a recent violent story.
A staggering 80 percent of people living with disabilities globally live in poverty, according to the National Department of Social Development.
Nomadlozi Mazibuko claims she was injured on the job. More than a month later, she claims her Johannesburg firm is withholding the paperwork she needs for treatment.
From London to Diepsloot, the number of outdoor gyms in city parks in on the rise. We look at how Soweto’s latest outdoor gym in Phiri Park is helping get South Africans moving.
Gauteng businesswoman Mulalo Simeti grew up in rural Limpopo. When she recently read that her old primary school was in danger of collapsing and burying learners alive, she knew she had to do something.
Imagine if you had to crawl outside on your hands and knees to use the toilet every time nature called. For at least 19,000 South Africans living with disabilities, daily indignities like these are just part of normal life as disabled people remain largely left behind in the country’s quest for sanitation and water.
Women in Orange Farm south of Johannesburg say they were recently told to buy their own prenatal vitamins after the local clinic ran short of pills.
A drop-in centre in Ha-Mashau, Limpopo provides daily meals to 150 orphaned or vulnerable children. Now, the centre may close almost a decade after it first opened its doors.
As South Africa continues to battle the worst drought in more than two decades, small farmers in Limpopo are reporting that hundreds of chickens have already fallen victim to the rising heat in a turn that could financially ruin farmers and leave households hungry.
University of Venda students no longer have to travel off campus to collect medication of receive check ups as the university recently unveiled a new campus clinic.
Months after Health-e news reported how children and staff at a Jouberton crèche lived in fear of criminal activity in the area, criminals have struck again.
April Eiland claims his home in Douglas outside of Kuruman is plagued almost daily by horrid smells emanating from blocked sewers and he claims the Siyancuma Local Municipality has done nothing to fix the problem since he first reported it last year.
Mild mannered youth turned knife-wielding “zombies” – it might seem like a scene out of a horror film but it is real for some residents living outside the small Free State town of Bethlehem as the picturesque dorpie is the latest to fall under the spell of South Africa’s cheap street drug nyaope.
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