Health
Durban protesters block roads, demanding local clinic be re-opened
The Newtown A clinic has been closed since the floods in April 2022
Brief | 12 August 2024
How we know a new medicine is so effective at preventing HIV transmission
There was not a single HIV transmission in a clinical trial in which women volunteers used the twice-yearly injectable drug lenacapavir
Science | 1 August 2024
Nurses stop work after finding human waste at clinic door
Mabandla Clinic in Kariega still has no fence or wall
Brief | 30 July 2024
Judge blocks government plan to tell private hospitals and doctors where they can go
“Certificate of Need” scheme thrown out of National Health Act
Law | 24 July 2024
Court finds Netcare failed to protect employee against an abusive surgeon
Operating theatre manager wins her case
Law | 16 July 2024
Farm workers demand transparency on pesticide regulations
Newly appointed Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen says protest was “premature”
By Liezl Human
Brief | 5 July 2024
Outcry over loss of sports field to make way for a hospital in Gugulethu
The site is a poor choice and the impact on the community was not considered, say residents
Brief | 2 July 2024
President urged to make sanitary pads free
I_Menstruate Movement launches “period poverty” exhibition in Franschhoek
Brief | 24 June 2024
Mpox in South Africa: here’s what we know
Health department reports second death from the disease
News | 13 June 2024