South Africa: Little Action From Government to Help Older People Live Healthier, Happier Lives

South Africa's participation in the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing has not achieved much so far Read more »

South Africa: Staff At Chatsworth Hospital Picket Over Poor Working Conditions

Staff shortages saw nurses having to work as cleaners and clerks Read more »

South Africa: KZN Health Department Fires Hospital Security Company

Guards downed tools because they have not yet been paid for June Read more »

South Africa: Teenagers March in Kariega for Better Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

Partners in Sexual Health director says while government has made some progress, the challenge is in the implementation of its policies Read more »

South Africa: Health Workers Protest At Lentegeur Hospital

Unhappiness over payments and workers left jobless Read more »

South Africa: Kariega Clinics Closed After Staff Robbed At Gunpoint

Eastern Cape health department says five incidents at different clinics have left staff and patients traumatised Read more »

South Africa: Hundreds March to Gugulethu Clinic Demanding Better Service

Protesters want a new hospital to be built Read more »

South Africa: Some Crèches Never Got the Promised Covid Relief Funds, and Now It's Too Late

Early Childhood Development relief programme comes to an end Read more »

South Africa: Unisa Campus Closed Due to Water Quality Concerns in Tshwane

Water is discoloured due to sediment, says City Read more »

South Africa: Pharmaceutical Giant Bayer Stops Clicks Selling Cheaper Generic Blood Thinning Medication

The judge took over a year to rule in "urgent application" Read more »

South Africa: Patients Spend Their Weekends Waiting to Be Seen At Mamelodi Clinic

Department plans to get more waiting space for busy Stanza Bopape clinic Read more »

South Africa: Nurses Protest Against Staff Shortage At Hospital Treating Cholera Patients

About 100 nurses originally contracted to deal with the Covid pandemic have not had their contracts renewed Read more »

South Africa: One Year Later and Still No Judgment in Urgent Case About Access to Medicine

Judge Colleen Collis reserved judgment in April 2022 in a matter between Bayer and Clicks Read more »

South Africa: Deadly Cholera Outbreak Was Just a Matter of Time

Drinking water has been dirty for at least three years, the Department of Water and Sanitation's own tests show Read more »

South Africa: Family of Man Shot By Police in Philippi Say They Waited Five Hours for an Ambulance

Mhlangabezi Skeyi was shot while trying to connect electricity illegaly Read more »

South Africa: Govt Criticised for Blaming Covid-19 for Country's Literacy Crisis

Department of basic education needs to take responsibility for "devastating" literacy rates, say opposition and civil society Read more »

South Africa: Women Picket Outside Nyanga Clinic Demanding Better Service

They say that there are stock-outs on certain medications, long queues and missing folders Read more »

South Africa: Loadshedding Hits Clinic Waiting Times

Patients say they queue for hours at Dunoon Community Health Centre in Cape Town Read more »

South Africa: Philippi Pair Beat Crime and Covid With Fast-Food Business

Estratweni Mobile Foods bounced back from pandemic Read more »

South Africa: Pensioners Have to Pay People to Queue for Them at This Cape Town Clinic

Patients at Nyanga Community Day Clinic says services have been deteriorating Read more »

South Africa: Pregnant Immigrants Say They Have Been Turned Away From Joburg Clinics

This is despite a Constitutional Court order Read more »

South Africa: Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious? Probably

But solutions are not at all simple Read more »

South Africa: Lack of Funds Forces Philippi Vegetable Soup Kitchen to Cut Down On Meals

Food for Life South Africa distributes plant-based meals over weekends across the Cape Flats and parts of the Western Cape Read more »

South Africa: Limpopo Protesters Demand Urgent Mobile Toilets for Schools With Pit Latrines

One school has three pit toilets for 400 learners Read more »

South Africa: 66,000 Learners in Limpopo Schools Are Still Using Pit Latrines

But the numbers are falling at last Read more »