Karate instructor aims to give obesity the chop
This Eastern Cape father uses karate and gardening to keep young and elderly members of his community healthy and active.
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Zizo Zikali
#SAAIDS2019: Youth demand more inclusion
Young people are excluded from the world’s second-largest conference, say activists.
Read More »#SAAIDS2019: Youth demand more inclusionFurious nurses threaten to withhold votes
“No jobs, no vote,” shouted unemployed nurses who marched to O.R Tambo Health sub-district offices in Lusikisiki last week. The unhappy nurses sang, carried placards and handed over a memorandum demanding that the Eastern Cape Department of Health employ them in the Ingquza Hill municipality.
Read More »Furious nurses threaten to withhold votesVillagers’ treacherous journey for healthcare
For KwaMhlanga villagers seeking healthcare may actually kill them. Many residents of the Eastern Cape village have deserted health services due to the alarming rate of rape and murders in a forest separating the village and the clinic in Flagstaff town.
Read More »Villagers’ treacherous journey for healthcareCommunity suffers as leaders squabble over clinic site
Residents of Makhwaleni Village, near the Eastern Cape town of Lusikisiki, have been deprived of a new clinic for years as the Amakhwalo Chief and the ward councillor squabble over where it should be built.
Read More »Community suffers as leaders squabble over clinic siteTownship artist uses art to celebrate unique skin
Vitiligo, albinism and freckles are relatively known as the skin conditions that make affected individuals seem different from their peers resulting to confidence loss and distress, artist Mandilakhe Rolinyathi celebrates their unique skin through artwork with the aim of unsettling stigma.
Read More »Township artist uses art to celebrate unique skinCalls for increased budgets in the mental health sector
The Life Esidimeni tragedy, patient abuse and suicide by health professionals are among the issues pointing to a dire need for better management of public sector psychiatry.
Read More »Calls for increased budgets in the mental health sector