South Africa: Alarming Rise in HIV Among Drug Users As Government Fails to Implement Policy

Needle programs are officially supported, but the state often obstructs them Read more »

South Africa: What I Learned On My Journey Through Breast Cancer

In Breast Cancer Awareness Month we can all do something to help Read more »

South Africa: The Health and Economic Costs of Emissions At Kusile Power Plant

Eskom has an exemption to operate without flue gas desulpharization until March Read more »

South Africa: Blind SA Says Ramaphosa Is Shirking His Constitutional Obligations

Legal action taken to compel the President to sign the Copyright Amendment Bill into law Read more »

South Africa: Food Meant for Poor Families Is Rotting in a Gauteng Food Bank

The Department of Social Development has been supplying food but not the funds to distribute it Read more »

South Africa: Hundreds of Drug Users Stranded After Gauteng Government Closes Rehabs

Life Nkanyisa's drug rehabs, formerly known as Life Esidimeni, had capacity for 750 people Read more »

South Africa: Rooigevaar in Saldanha - Residents Say Red Dust From Transnet's Ore Terminal Is Staining Their Homes and Even Their Dogs

But Transnet says the dust falls below legal limits Read more »

South Africa: The Public Swimming Pool in This Eastern Cape Town Has Been Empty for Four Years

Ngcobo residents fear the pool will be vandalised and never reopen Read more »

South Africa: Learners in This Rural School Have One Teacher and No Toilets

Learners at Gcina Senior Primary in KwaGcina, Cofimvaba relieve themselves on an open field during the school day Read more »

South Africa: Hundreds Join Cape Flats 'Recovery Walk'

The annual event celebrating recovery from substance use started in 2015 Read more »

South Africa: SIU Takes Aim At Ballooning Dodgy Medical Litigation That Is Costing the Government Billions

One law firm submitted claims of nearly R500-million against the Eastern Cape health department Read more »

South Africa: Health Department Misses Another Deadline to Provide Nurses With Uniforms

The department has committed to paying nurses a once-off allowance by the end of November Read more »

South Africa: At Least 116 Children Died From Malnutrition in the Eastern Cape in One Year

Conference on hunger hears there's more than enough food. Policy failures by both government and corporations are causing hunger. Read more »

South Africa: Province Tells City of Cape Town to Clean Up Dunoon

Warning on pollution and health hazards in informal settlement Read more »

South Africa: Villagers Use Contaminated River Water While R100-Million Sewage Project Delayed

Tsomo waste water treatment works were meant to be completed two years ago Read more »

South Africa: At 104 Years Old, War Veteran William Sadiki's One Wish Is to Have a Toilet Inside His House

"War is not good, and it is painful. If I were asked to go to war again, I would not agree." Read more »

South Africa: Social Development Scandal - Last Three Suspended Officials Return to Work

They were suspended during the term of MEC Mbali Hlophe when the department was in chaos Read more »

South Africa: Future of the Nearly 900 People Living in Woodstock Hospital Hangs in the Balance

Cape Town Mayor commits to social housing but residents believe they will be kicked out Read more »

South Africa: Dutywa Health Centre Lacks Valid Fire Compliance Certificate

The Eastern Cape facility's incinerator room, which was used to store hazardous material, was gutted by fire on Saturday. Read more »

South Africa: Durban Protesters Block Roads, Demanding Local Clinic Be Re-Opened

The Newtown A clinic has been closed since the floods in April 2022 Read more »

South Africa: Eight Years and Counting - Sewage Spills Into Butterworth River

Municipality blames illegal connections for pump station failure Read more »

South Africa: Covid PPE Supplier Must Face the Music, Court Rules

Pro Secure fails in bid to stop Special Investigating Unit going after it to recover millions of rands Read more »

South Africa: 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 Read more »

South Africa: Nurses Stop Work After Finding Human Waste At Clinic Door

Mabandla Clinic in Kariega still has no fence or wall Read more »

South Africa: Umgeni - a River of Sewage Flowing Through Durban

The municipal sewage works is one of the main pollution sources Read more »