Drinking, smoking and TB
Grace Shabangu has been drinking and smoking more than half her life, will developing tuberculosis (TB) give her the will to change?
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Limpopo clinic welcomes festive season volunteers
Student nurses are filing into Limpopo’s Guyuni Clinic to lend a hand during the festive season.
December drinking puts spotlight on SA’s bad habits
As December continues, some South Africans are likely to be spending end of the year bonuses on booze in what the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dubbed one of Africa’s hardest drinking nations.
East Rand NGO brings festive season home to children
Recently the Villalissa Support Group based in Johannesburg’s East Rand threw a Christmas party for orphaned and vulnerable children, but the NGO is the third in as many months to complain about decreased funding.
Rural Eastern Cape teen becomes community role model
Avelile was born with HIV. Now, the teenager from rural Eastern Cape never misses a dose of her antiretrovirals (ARVs) – and has become an example to her community.
Tshwane centre for vulnerable children faces closure
Martha and her 17-year-old daughter are living with HIV. When they come to the Kopano Lerato centre, they feel accepted and supported. Now, the community-based organisation is in danger of closing.
Tshwane water shortages continue
As municipal taps remain dry, Hammanskraal communities outside Pretoria continue to go to great lengths for drinking water.
In-Depth: Water trucks take over as communities run dry
Amid ongoing power cuts, many communities are dealing with intermittent water supplies and relying on water trucks for portable water as municipalities struggle to maintain their water systems.
Residents left to plead for water at school gates
Without running water, residents of one rural Mpumalanga community say they are left to beg for water at the gates of a local school where they say security guards often turn them away empty handed.
Dirty water deliveries for Limpopo villages
At least two villages in Limpopo’s Mutale Local Municipality depend on municipal water trucks to survive but now villagers are claiming the trucks are delivering dirty water.
Municipality installs pump but community can’t foot electrical bill
Residents of the small, rural Mpumalanga town of Vezinyawo said they were told to pay R2 to keep a municipal water pump working after the municipality would not pay R200 for prepaid electricity, residents allege.
R300 million slated to improve Madibeng Municipal water
Local Ward 3 Councillor Susan Nthangeni says R300 million has been allocated to fix local municipal pipes and boreholes following deadly service delivery protests in April.
Water shortage sparks diarrhoea cases
A recent water shortage in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape and surrounding areas is being blamed for at least four cases of diarrhoea among local children.
Water crisis looms in Kestell, Free State
With the construction of a promised dam delayed, residents of Kestell, Free State say that the lack of water risks their lives and their livelihoods.
Bethlehem informal residents beg water off neighbours
Residents of Silahliwe informal settlement outside Bethlehem share one working toilet for about every 900 people. According to local officials, securing access to water and sanitation may mean that about a third of the settlement’s residents will have to move.