September 13
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 »
September 10
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 »
September 09
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 »
August 29
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 »
August 26
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 »
August 22
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 »
August 21
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 »
August 12
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 »
August 06
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 »
August 01
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 »
July 30
South Africa: Nurses Stop Work After Finding Human Waste At Clinic Door
Mabandla Clinic in Kariega still has no fence or wall Read more »
July 18
South Africa: Umgeni - a River of Sewage Flowing Through Durban
The municipal sewage works is one of the main pollution sources Read more »
July 16
South Africa: Angry Doctors Write to Minister About Unpaid Road Accident Fund Bills
"We implore you to intervene," medical experts say to Barbara Creecy Read more »
July 15
South Africa: We Had No Water to Put Out the Flames, Say Victims of Durban Shack Fire
Pregnant woman dies as 200 shacks gutted Read more »
June 27
South Africa: Gauteng Non-Profit Organisations Reject Findings of Province's Forensic Probe
Six out of 13 drug rehabs previously funded by the Gauteng Social Development Department are now "under investigation" Read more »
June 13
South Africa: Mpox in South Africa - Here's What We Know
Health department reports second death from the disease Read more »
June 10
South Africa: These Inanda Families Have to Walk to a Primary School to Use the Toilet
Victims of 2022 floods are still living in a "transit camp" Read more »
South Africa: Radiation Therapy Graduates Unplaced for Six Months By Health Department
Graduates are required by law to complete the Internship and Community Service Programme in order to practise Read more »
June 05
South Africa: Almost Half of State-Funded Drug Rehab Beds in Gauteng Under Threat
Organisations "under investigation" have not been told why Read more »
May 22
South Africa: Colchester Clinic Is Crumbling, With Broken Ceilings, Windows and No Electricity
But the Eastern Cape Department of Health says there's no money to renovate the clinic Read more »
May 20
South Africa: SA Bank Executives Coined It During Covid
Banks paid out hefty bonuses, though performance targets were not met Read more »
South Africa: 'Silent Disease' Outed At African Hepatitis Convention
Many South Africans with hepatitis go undiagnosed Read more »