Do 80% of South Africans regularly consult traditional healers? Do most black South Africans choose traditional healers over medical doctors and primary healthcare facilities? The claims are false. And as we discovered, with a little sleuthing, they stem from a book published thirty years ago.
Kate Wilkinson for Africa Check
News | 31 July 2013
Five years after violence marred the last elections, Zimbabweans are to take to the polls on the 31 July. The question is: will it be a free and fair election?
Nwabisa Pondoyi
Brief | 31 July 2013
The government is discontinuing the provision of free formula milk at public health facilities. This policy is intended to promote exclusive breastfeeding for all mothers, including those living with HIV.
Vuyiseka Dubula
Opinion | 30 July 2013
Jabulani Murire is a 38-year-old, married Zimbabwean man with three children. His family is struggling to survive after he became bedridden following a car accident while on duty.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 30 July 2013
Amelia Earnest met people who live on the streets of Cape Town. Some of them have been living outside since they were children. The City recently made it harder for them. Read the full story below the photographs.
Amelia Earnest
News | 30 July 2013
Next month, the Constitutional Court will hear the appeal by Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa after his application for an interdict to stop the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into policing in Khayelitsha was unsuccessful.The case is set for 6 August.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 30 July 2013
Amelia Earnest met people who live on the streets of Cape Town. Some of them have been living outside since they were children. The City recently made it harder for them. Read the full story below the photographs.
Amelia Earnest
News | 30 July 2013
Having a baby in South Africa can be dangerous. Despite a large government budget for maternal health and free maternity care in the public health system, the rate at which pregnant women die is troubling.
Kerry Gordon
News | 29 July 2013
The discussion of socialism and nationalisation in this column last week has upset some trade unionists and at least one academic. They felt that the demands of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of Julius Malema were equated with those of movements of the traditional Left.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 29 July 2013
Mr. Zolile Prusente is the curriculum specialist with the regional education department in Upington. Recently, he sent a complaint to the South African Human Rights Commission regarding a problematic shift in language policy in the past year.
Selby Nomnganga
News | 26 July 2013
Olwethu is a 14-year-old boy whose dreams have been shattered. Due to his upbringing, Olwethu is only doing Grade 2 now at 14 instead of the usual age of 8.
Pharie Sefali
News | 24 July 2013
Last year GroundUp ran a story about the Helderberg Street Peopleās Centre (HSPC), a soup kitchen in Somerset West. They were being forced to close down. The situation āhas since gotten worseā according to chairman of the centre, Ian Greer.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 24 July 2013
On 19 July 2013, the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) hosted the Sisonke Open University Seminar on sex workers and people with disabilities. Ntokozo Yingwana, an Advocacy Officer at SWEAT, said that the seminar dealt with disability in the sex industry. She said she hoped the conference would help lift the stigma on this topic.
Jonathan Dockney
News | 24 July 2013
As this yearās winter circumcision season comes to a close, communities across the country are mourning the decline of a respected tradition that has fallen into criminal hands.
Edirin Okoloko and Thandile Majivolo
Feature | 24 July 2013
We interviewed a small cross-section of South African society about Mandela Day. Some of the answers were surprising.
Pharie Sefali
News | 24 July 2013
The training was completed at Shelley Spar but equipment to hand out black cards has not yet arriveā¦ Read more
Poor service delivery yet fat cats that remain in their jobs. Civil rights grossly neglected will lā¦ Read more
With regard to Mitchells Plain town centre: it's really frustrating in how law enforcement apply thā¦ Read more
This letter is to the City officials: I've read through the article. Nowhere does it state what ā¦ Read more
We got to this clinic so early and the queue wasn't that long. The nurses here have a bad reputatioā¦ Read more