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#CoronavirusSA: Chaos at Sassa pay points on day one

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Grant beneficiaries converged en masse at pay points in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape as fake news circulated that the grant top-up would only be paid on the first day.

LindiwePakati
May 7, 2020

#CoronaVirusSA: First Mthatha Covid-19 death spooks residents

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The deceased is the first death in the OR Tambo region, and his coronavirus diagnosis was only found out after he passed away.

LindiwePakati
April 21, 2020

State is also ‘captured’ by incompetence

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Twenty three years after South Africa’s first democratic elections, many Eastern Cape residents still live in dire poverty – held hostage as much by incompetent officials as corrupt ones. Is there any political will to turn the country’s poorest municipalities around?

kerrycullinan
February 5, 2018

Protesting villagers get their medicine

Health, Our Health

More than fifty regular patients at the Village Clinic in the OR Tambo District had a sit-in at the clinic when they were told that their Efavirenz tablets – an anti-retroviral drug for HIV-positive patients – was not available.

mtshanamvlisi
July 10, 2013

School toilets in shocking state

Determinants Of Health, Health, Health Systems, Our Health

Millions of people do not have access to proper sanitation and in South African schools the situation is especially dire. Health-e News Service conducted an informal survey of the state of 17 schools' toilets that fall within four of the National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot districts. At all 17 schools the toilets were in a shocking condition. By OurHealth Reporters.

mtshanamvlisi
May 2, 2013

‘Patients default because of nurses’

Health, Our Health

LUSIKISIKI. - Makazi Damane is a 42-year-old Lusikisiki man living at the low-income housing scheme in at Joe Slovo. He was diagnosed with HIV and started antiretroviral treatment in 2006, but from 2010 have been going on and off of treatment.