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.
From picking the dress to negotiating curfew, a lot goes into the perfect matric dance but some teens may be taking dangerous risks in an effort to look "their best" for the big night.
A stroke prompted 41-year-old Andrew Matekane to test for HIV and like many, dealing with his new diagnosis was not easy for him or his partner.
Lekwa Local Municipality graveyards are allegedly filling up and the area’s high HIV prevalence rate are is to blame, according to Lekwa Executive Mayor Linda Dhlamini.
On the heels of a South African Human Commission announcement that a national inquriy will be held on the state of emergency medical services (EMS), another man’s death has been blamed on ambulance shortages – this time in Limpopo
Residents of Ermelo’s Wesselton township say they are tired of blocked sewers that have been sending foul-smelling water into their yards for years.
Kuruman’s Tshwaragano District Hospital is set to become home to South Africa’s latest human breast milk bank as another bank is reportedly slated to open in Limpopo.
The Odi District Hospital outside Pretoria recently gave patients a lesson on how to complain at its annual Open Day.
Elizabeth Mahlangu is living with HIV. When her Daveyton clinic runs out of her antidepressant, it can cost her R110 to refill her prescription at a private pharmacy. All too often, those like Mahlangu suffer in silence, says the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
The Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has embarked on a public road show to educate patients on their rights. The move comes amid recent stiff criticism of the body.
Carrying a badge and wearing a uniform have not stopped Kuruman police from allegedly threatening sex workers in an attempt to coerce sex workers to provide their services for free, according to Northern Cape Provincial AIDS Council Chairperson Beau Nkaelang.
Lebohang Moabeng was diagnosed with kidney failure at the age of 17. Now, six years after a kidney transplant saved his life, he earned South Africa a bronze medal at the recent World Transplant Games.
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has charted another first for Africa as the hospital welcomes a new state-of-the-art machine that will allow women to be treated for fibroids without surgery. The machine has been billed as the first of its kind in Africa.
Every day about 300 learners from Grade 1 to Grade 7 make their way to a dilapidated school in Limpopo, not knowing if they will return home.
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