Miners win right to pursue class action case
Friday 13 May proved lucky for thousands of mineworkers seeking damages from gold mines for silicosis and TB
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More than half of South African children left behind
More than a million South Africans are born into the world each year and a new report released today shows that the inequity they are born into begins to shape them from a young age.
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VIDEO: Keeping fit doesn’t need to cost a cent
Meet the Soweto fitness instructor who says it does not have to cost a cent to stay fit.
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Opinion: Sex workers essential to meeting new HIV targets
South Africa has committed itself to reaching the world’s latest batch of ambitious targets, but it will not meet them without sex workers, writes Ntokozo Yingwana.
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South Africa moves to ‘test and treat’
Any HIV positive person will be able to get antiretroviral medicine irrespective of their CD4 count by September.
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Video: ‘You have to die with dignity’
Millions of South Africans live with serious illness and when the pain becomes too much, many turn to hospice.
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Municipalities pose threat to water supply
Municipalities' inability to manage waste water and repair pipes is threatening our survival
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Blood on the floor: Women’s deaths a ‘national emergency’
Hundreds of women each year die following caesarean deliveries. With rates of caesarean deliveries climbing, the stage may be set for more deaths to come.
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Ambulance arrives too late to save teen
Lele Gangile, 19, thought he wanted to end his life but when he had second thoughts, an ambulance may have arrived too late to save the Orange Farm teen.
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‘We can do better,’ doctor tells health market inquiry
In South Africa's two-tiered healthcare system, no one wins, testify doctors as the Competition Commission Inquiry into Private Healthcare resumes, writes Section27.
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Medicine, morality on South Africa’s drug routes
When you're a doctor operating along South Africa’s drug routes, anything can happen and when it does, reality and relations can change in an instant, writes one rural doctor.
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‘Unbearable’ Northern Cape clinic gets cleaner after almost a year
One Northern Cape clinic recently spent months without a cleaner, forcing nurses to trade their stethoscopes for mops. Now, the Northern Cape Department of Health has stepped in to help.
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North West families turn to food gardens amid food hikes
As drought and a weaker rand conspire to raise food prices, families in the North West may be hardest hit. One family has found a fix for high food prices.
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World endorses more ‘war on drugs’
The world’s hardline "war on drugs" has resulted in violence, criminalised drug users and exacerbated HIV and Hepatitis C infection. Yet the UN has just endorsed a similar approach.
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Distributing clean needles to curb the spread of HIV
The Step Up Project runs needle exchange programmes with injecting drug users in Cape Town, Durban and Tshwane.
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