Police and community members say the growing cases of gender-based violence (GBV) in the Selosesha cluster in Botshabelo east of Bloemfontein is likely the result of substance abuse and high unemployment rates. Speaking at a community dialogue in August police…
Two people died in two separate incidents as a result of the current heatwave being experienced in Mangaung in the Free State. In the first incident, a man was standing in a line to get his social relief distress grant…
Six additional cases '€“ 5 from Free State and 1 from Northern Cape - of Rift Valley fever (RVF) have been reported by the South African National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD) Laboratory. The total number of laboratory confirmed human cases of RVF is now 149 since the first incident on 13 February 2010.
The health department has not yet hired more staff, citing budget constraints.
Two families in Nyakallong, Free State, are mourning the deaths of two young boys who drowned in a mine dam near Harmony Gold’s Target 2 Rock Dump in Allanridge. Thabo Diloko, 9, and Lethabo Abrahams, 8, died after four boys…
Residents say human excrement and foul-smelling water constantly flow through their yards and streets.
Tests done on water collected by the community monitoring team and the Benchmarks Foundation showed high concentrations of arsenic, lead, copper, silicon and uranium.
Tokollo District Hospital, situated in the small farming town of Heilbron in the Free State province, has become the latest district hospital in South Africa to receive international standards accreditation by the Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA).
A staggering 15 000 HIV-positive people have been placed on waiting lists in the Free State where a moratorium is barring them from accessing anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs at hospitals and clinics.
With no end to load shedding in the foreseeable future in South Africa, the community of QwaQwa was hopeful when the procurement of generators was announced. But this glimmer of hope has turned into a tunnel of darkness following the…
Many Free State children need effective pain management for various conditions. The Sunflower Children'€™s Hospice in the Free State province shows that the vast majority of these are children living with HIV and AIDS.
By turning to another man for comfort after her obese husband lost interest in sex, a Free State woman’s actions sparked a tragic series of events that ended in murder.
Home-based HIV testing offers families the opportunity to understand and face the virus together. This is a new phenomenon in South Africa, having first been introduced in certain districts of the Mpumalanga and Free State provinces.
Mental health challenges among young people in the area are deeply rooted in broader social and economic issues.Â
While locals are still reeling about the suicide of 14-year-old Klara Göttert, who took her life at Northgate Mall this week, another mother in the Free State’s rural town of Bethlehem is also mourning the death by suicide of her 18-year-old daughter.
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