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Ill woman’s ‘sangoma trauma’

Our Health

When she was 28, Isabell Gama from Emanyeveni in Mpumalanga thought that the tingling in her feet was due to idlozi; her ancestors were calling her to become a sangoma but she had not answered the call.

Cynthia Maseko
March 29, 2019

Sugar industry job loss claims are premature – Treasury

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It is premature for the sugar industry to claim that the sugary drinks tax is causing job losses, according to Treasury.

Amy Green
March 27, 2019

Community suffers as leaders squabble over clinic site

Our Health

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.

Zizo Zikali
March 27, 2019

Community suffers as leaders squabble over clinic site

Our Health

Zizo Zikali
March 27, 2019

Sugar industry job loss claims are premature – Treasury

News

It is premature for the sugar industry to claim that the sugary drinks tax is causing job losses, according to Treasury.

Amy Green
March 27, 2019

Water crises sweep country

News

Forget power cuts. What is happening to our water supply is much more serious. After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, corruption and indifference, South Africans are vulnerable to medieval, water-borne diseases and something even more serious: thirst.

healthe
March 26, 2019

Water crises sweep country

Health

After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, South Africans are vulnerable to water-borne diseases and something even more serious: thirst.

healthe
March 26, 2019

TB patients still shunned by families

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Despite South Africa being the only country in the world to make a new TB drug available to all who have drug-resistant TB, many TB patients are still avoided by their families.

Amy Green and Amy Green
March 25, 2019

TB patients still shunned by families

Health

Despite South Africa being the only country in the world to make a new TB drug available to all who have drug-resistant TB, many TB patients are still avoided by their families.

Amy Green
March 25, 2019

Drug-resistant TB hard to root out

Health

WORLD TB DAY: Although South Africa has the highest per capita burden of drug-resistant TB in the world, there are many barriers to addressing this - as one patient found out when it took doctors two years to diagnose him.

NdivhuwoMukwevho, NdivhuwoMukwevho and NdivhuwoMukwevho
March 24, 2019

Drug-resistant TB hard to root out

Health

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
March 24, 2019

Eskom’s Suffocating Stranglehold

Health

Eskom’s cluster of 12 coal-fired power stations in Mpumalanga is the biggest source of nitrogen dioxide pollution in the world, according to environmental rights organisation Greenpeace.

Health-e TV Unit
March 22, 2019

Hospital progress praised

Our Health

LIMPOPO - The new management team at Tshilidzini Hospital, outside Thohoyandou, has rolled up their sleeves and is getting the hospital back on track. This is after the previous administration was fired for incompetence.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
March 22, 2019

Eskom’s Suffocating Stranglehold

Health

Eskom’s cluster of 12 coal-fired power stations in Mpumalanga is the biggest source of nitrogen dioxide pollution in the world, according to environmental rights organisation Greenpeace.

Health-e TV Unit
March 22, 2019

Hospital progress praised

Our Health

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
March 22, 2019

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