Nine years ago, Health-e News met Matthew Legemaate while he
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Young women in North West live with fibroid pain as they wait for treatment for more than a year
Bakang Ditibane
25-year old Tiisetso Lekgetho experiences painful periods with heavy bleeding that keeps her home two or three days a month, unable to look for work or go about her normal life. Lekgetho, from Tsetse village outside Mahikeng in the North West, has multiple uterine fibroids. She has been waiting for
IN PHOTOS | What’s on your plate? Seven meals show what food insecurity looks like in South Africa
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For some families, dinner is pap and spinach. For another, chicken and bread must stretch across a household of 12. At a Free State school, a plate of samp, beans and vegetables may be a child’s main meal of the day. As part of our Hungry for Change series, Health-e
Limpopo families fear influx of drugs after major Hawks Lab Bust on Musina Farm
Bernard Chiguvare
Parents in Musina, Limpopo, say drug addiction is taking a toll on families, leaving some afraid in their own homes and struggling to get help for their children. Their concerns come after the Hawks uncovered a suspected crystal methamphetamine manufacturing operation on a farm in Musina, in Vhembe District on
Organ donation gave Matthew a second chance at life
Sandile Mbili
Nine years ago, Health-e News met Matthew Legemaate while he was waiting for a heart and double-lung transplant. Legemaate, who lives with his parents in Gillitts in KwaZulu-Natal, was born with a congenital heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot and severe pulmonary atresia. At the time Health-e News wrote about
Musina residents still living with sewage despite Public Protector findings
Bernard Chiguvare
Residents of Matswale township in Musina say persistent sewage spills and the stench from overflowing wastewater continue to disrupt their lives, more than a year after the Public Protector found that authorities had failed to properly maintain the town’s sewage infrastructure. The report found that Vhembe District Municipality (VDM) and
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