Health
Budget Day marked by protests and marches
Issues included unemployment, climate change and gender rights
By Ashraf Hendricks, Tariro Washinyira and Vincent Lali
News | 26 February 2020
Armed men assault clinic workers
Pietermaritzburg clinic closed after attack; patients turned away
Brief | 25 February 2020
Payouts to injured workers held up by faulty government software
New R300 million Compensation Fund software isn’t working
By Liezl Human
Brief | 25 February 2020
Hospital in dire straits after Eastern Cape Health Department fails to pay contractors
Refurbishment ground to a halt at the hospital when the department ran out of money. Union threatens to down tools
News | 25 February 2020
Criminal record of health protesters cleared
Record expunged four years after court set aside convictions
By Zoë Postman
Brief | 18 February 2020
Strike by Emergency Medical Services ends after four days
EMS employees in Graaff-Reinet went on strike last week Tuesday
Brief | 18 February 2020
State dental clinic lacks anaesthetics
Gugulethu Community Dental Clinic only treating 40 people a day
News | 7 February 2020
Crucial patient information lost in Yeoville clinic robbery
Robbers made off with 11 computers each worth R22,000
By Gaby Ndongo
Brief | 6 February 2020
Authorities prepare South Africa for coronavirus
No cases detected in the country, but National Institute for Communicable Diseases has put systems in place
By Elsabé Brits
News | 27 January 2020