May 28
South Africa: The Children's Beachfront Hospital the Apartheid Govt Tried to Kill Is Reclaiming Its Heartbeat
Shut down by the apartheid government for providing care to child patients of all races, Durban's Addington Children's Hospital is well on its way from a ghostly ruin into a… Read more »
April 29
South Africa: Where Children Die | the Bells Know That Loving Comes With Loss and They Open Their Hearts Again and Again
Fifteen years ago, when Christoff and Tarryn Bell fell in love with a severely ill baby in a KwaZulu-Natal orphanage, they had no idea this would kickstart a journey which would… Read more »
April 28
South Africa: Where Children Die - The Long Search for Care in Rural KZN
When Thokozile Ndlovu found out that her baby had a life-limiting illness, she went from pillar to post looking for medical help. Her journey took her to one of the only places… Read more »
April 13
South Africa: 'When Other Kids Were Playing With Dolls, I Was Playing Being a Doctor', Says SA's New HIV and TB Czar
Spotlight meets South Africa's recently appointed Deputy Director-General for HIV, AIDS, TB and sexually transmitted infections, discussing the latest HIV prevention medicines, her… Read more »
March 30
South Africa: Child Stunting and Echoes of HIV - What It Will Take for South Africa to Change Course
Weeks after pledging to end child stunting by 2030, President Cyril Ramaphosa has kick-started a task team to drive this urgent national mission. But what concrete steps could… Read more »
October 13, 2025
South Africa: Amid All the Noise, How Well Is South Africa's Immunisation Programme Actually Doing
Childhood immunisation programmes have saved many millions of lives and prevented much suffering. Yet, immunisation programmes have lost momentum over the last decade or so. In… Read more »








