For nine months, since May 2025, Kgorathuto Secondary School in Botshabelo in the Free State had ongoing water shortages, making the toilets unusable. Learners arrived at school for registers to be ...

In 2023, the Commission for Gender Equality called the National Department of Health to account for delays in implementing recommendations from its investigation into the forced sterilisation of ...

Zimbabwean immigrants living in Louis Trichardt say they are being turned away from clinics or told their latest chronic medication collection will be their ...

The curtain on my long-standing career as a public health service employee after more than a decade spent championing the health rights of the most ...

Nompilo Maleka is no ordinary granny. The 115-year-old great-grandmother from Driekop outside Burgersfort in Limpopo still wakes up early in the morning, makes her bed, washes dishes and cooks. A copy ...

20-year old Dimakatso Madimabe* claims doctors removed her womb without her knowledge or consent. Photo Credit: Thomo Nkgadima A young Limpopo mother says doctors removed her womb during childbirth ...

Hantaviruses are a group of viruses carried by rodents like rats and mice, and can cause severe disease in humans. Not all hantaviruses cause disease in people, and only a small number like the Andes ...

This week, clinics in six provinces started the rollout of Lenacapavir, an injection that has been shown to be more than 96% effective in preventing HIV with just two jabs a year. This is part of a ...

In Hoedspruit, along the R527, abandoned vendor stalls have turned into makeshift housing for 120 displaced people. They lost their homes in November 2025, when an unattended candle sparked a fire ...

Villager say government promised to upgrade this healthcare point to a full-service clinic. (Photo: Thembi Siaga) Residents of Mbaula Ranch and Phalaubeni villages in Limpopo’s Mopani District have ...

In June 2023, as former Health Ombudsman Professor Malegapuru Makgoba concluded his seven year tenure, he delivered a scathing assessment of Gauteng, South Africa’s economic powerhouse and most ...

Some women in Mahikeng, in the North West, fear unplanned pregnancies due to a shortage of contraceptives at their local clinics for at least the past four months. “I went to the Unit 9 Clinic last ...