13 July 2020 – 06:00 President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation. Picture: GCIS Last night, as President Cyril Ramaphosa returned SA to a strict lockdown, there was much you didn’t hear from him. For a…
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By Andrew Harding Africa correspondent, BBC News 15 July 2020 Coronavirus pandemic An exclusive, weeks-long BBC investigation inside filthy hospitals in South Africa has exposed an extraordinary array of systemic failures showing how exhausted doctors…
Dr James Blair Mwesigwa, state pathologist who stole body parts. 0 Former state specialist forensic pathologist Dr James Blair Mwesigwa (60), who stole body parts at the Diepkloof mortuary, was sentenced to 10 years behind…
Citizen reporter Patients wait outside the hospital pharmacy to pick up medication at Jubilee hospital in Hammanskraal. There is plenty of competition, with many government hospitals in the province described as deadly. The Democratic Alliance…
The risk of dying from scheduled surgery in Africa is more than double the global average, researchers said on Wednesday, in a study shedding light on one of the continent’s biggest but poorly investigated healthcare…
26 November 2017 – 15:08 BY TIMESLIVE  A sewage leak has flooded parts of the fourth floor at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital. File photo. Image: Jack Bloom The Gauteng health intervention team announced…
Phillip de Wet 02 Nov 2017 00:00  ‘During court proceedings, it emerged that a normal audit would never have detected where the money actually went, Spilg said on Tuesday,’ writes Phillip de Wet (Jabu…
9.10.2017 04:32 pm ANA Former Life Esidimeni patients are now receiving adequate care at Clinix Selby Park Hospital. Photo: Jacaranda FM. Most of the patients died in five of the 27 NGOs, which were found…
 “Where are the black experts? The few we have in the health sector are rarely quoted in the media.” (David Harrison) 11 AUG 2017 00:00 PONTSHO PILANE It’s not right that only black…
By Siya Tsewu – September 30, 2017 A frustrated and highly trained heart doctor is sitting in Mthatha’s Nelson Mandela Academic hospital surrounded by high-tech specialist state-of-the-art equipment worth R28-million – but without anyone to…
