One year after Health-e News reported on Stinkwater’s sanitation crisis,
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Hungry For Change: Health-e News reports on South Africa’s hunger crisis in an 8-part series
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South Africa is facing a hunger crisis. This is according to recent submissions by advocacy groups to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC)’s Inquiry into the country’s food system. The first phase of the inquiry was held in March this year, and heard evidence from civil society organisations and
“I regret my decision” – Mom’s 8-Year Old Hospitalised After Circumcision By Suspended Doctor
Moyahabo Mabeba
A Limpopo mother from Maleboho says she regrets taking her eight-year-old son for circumcision at a make-shift surgery that left him with septic wounds and hospitalised for a week. Doris Mosena, from Slaaphoek village in the Maleboho area, says she paid R500 to have her son, Thapelo circumcised on 22
Meet Zama, the volunteer helping KwaNyuswa families stay healthy
Sandile Mbili
When parents in KwaNyuswa, Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal are unable to take their children to the clinic because of work or other commitments, they turn to 27-year-old Zama Nkwanyana for help. Zama, a mother of two children, aged 7 and 4, takes other parents’ babies and older children to the clinic
IN PHOTOS | No room left to dig: Inside Stinkwater’s pit toilet crisis
Lucas Phelwane
One year after Health-e News reported on Stinkwater’s sanitation crisis, residents say conditions have worsened. For thousands of residents in Stinkwater, near Hammanskraal north of Pretoria, pit toilets remain the only form of sanitation nearly 60 years after the settlement was established. As old pit toilets fill up and groundwater
Emergency hysterectomy explained: When can doctors remove a woman’s womb without consent?
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A recent Health-e News publication of a 20-year old Limpopo mother who alleges that doctors removed her womb without her knowledge or consent after childbirth, has raised questions about when an emergency hysterectomy may be necessary and what patients’ rights are. We asked Prof Leon Snyman, of the South African
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IN PHOTOS | No room left to dig: Inside Stinkwater’s pit toilet crisis
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Meet Zama, the volunteer helping KwaNyuswa families stay healthy
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Emergency hysterectomy explained: When can doctors remove a woman’s womb without consent?
A recent Health-e News publication of a 20-year old Limpopo