Health
This vaccine could save tens of thousands of South African lives each year, but we’ll only see it in 2030
Vaccines against TB are much slower to develop than Covid ones
By James Stent
Science | 9 May 2022
Farm workers demand urgent ban on 67 pesticides
Women on farms say that pesticide exposure is making them sick
By Liezl Human
News | 6 May 2022
Diarrhoea cases in children surge in Cape Town
This spike comes after several years of improvement. A public health expert is worried that sewage spills might be the cause
Feature | 6 May 2022
Eastern Cape paramedics face dismissal
Workers stop work to demand better equipment
News | 5 May 2022
“We are overwhelmed,” says nurse at Steve Biko Academic Hospital
Nurses march to demand better working conditions and more staff
By Chris Gilili
Brief | 4 May 2022
Video: Her aunt was tied to a bench in a hospital, so Virginia Keppler took on the Gauteng health system
Part 6 in our series on the Gauteng public health system crisis
Video | 4 May 2022
Place Eastern Cape health department under administration, say workers
Clinics in Motherwell, Gqeberha, shut since Tuesday
Brief | 22 April 2022
Can technology help fix state clinics?
There are promising solutions to problems in primary health care but they are mostly emerging in the private sector
By Daniel Steyn and Vusi Mokoena
Feature | 22 April 2022
Mfuleni families left to use the canal as a toilet
Chemical toilets fill up, flush toilets are blocked
News | 19 April 2022