The Department of Health and Wellness says it has no plans to comply with a 2025 Labour Court ruling that community health workers (CHWs) must be ...

Bushbuckridge Local Municipality embarks on a clean-up operation in Hluvukani following our reporting on the waste sites.

At 6am on a Saturday morning, Luvhengo Vhulahani treks up a mountain to collect firewood for villagers living without electricity.

The estimated cost of repairing dozens of health facilities damaged by the Limpopo floods currently stands at R7 million.

South Africa has moved a step closer to an HIV vaccine with the launch of the BRILLIANT 011 clinical trial at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF) site ...

She explains there’s no national clinical protocol, but standard practice is to not confront or accuse the patient, but to record the discrepancy factually in clinical notes. “The nurse and admin ...

A lack of awareness campaigns has left the areas exposed to environmental and health hazards caused by unmanaged waste.

Elderly residents at Ekhanana Old Age Home in Durban’s Umlazi township are facing a growing health and safety crisis after the facility was left without electricity and continues to battle severe ...

Residents of Mahlathi, a village outside Giyani, say they have been forced to use contaminated water for daily needs because of the recent floods in the area. Thandi Mathebula and her family of seven ...

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 ...

“If you are not South African, from today you will not be allowed into any South African hospital.” This was the message delivered by a member of Operation Dudula outside Hillbrow Clinic on Monday to ...