Budget 2026: Ten Takeaways From Godongwana’s Speech
Minister of Finance paints an optimistic picture
Healthcare
Budget 2026: Civil Society Groups Call For a R1,750-A-Month Social Grant
“The government needs to tax the rich”
Doctors Complain About Choice of Equipment at Gauteng Hospital as Thousands Await Cancer Scans
Concern about decision to buy Chinese MRI machine from local company instead of one from Philips
Snakebites: How to Avoid Them and What to Do if You’re Bitten
In sub-Saharan Africa, over 300,000 people are envenomed each year, leading to over 7,000 deaths and almost twice as many amputations.
Mpumalanga’s Healthcare Services at Breaking Point
Mpumalanga’s healthcare services are at a critical tipping point. The Department of Health’s latest quarterly report for 2025/26 paints a picture of decay and maladministration, placing healthcare on the brink of collapse. With billions either squandered or underspent, the Department is clearly letting the people of the province down. Hospitals are deteriorating, doctors remain jobless […]
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African Indigenous Foods That Fight Inflammation May Help People With Diabetes – Research
Many African food groups significantly reduce oxidative stress linked to type 2 diabetes and lower the production of inflammatory markers.
SCA Rules Medical Negligence Damages Must Be Paid as Lump Sum
This overturns a high court ruling that the health department would provide treatment at state facilities instead of paying cash damages
Zukiswa Wanner Describes Her Detention by Israel
Global Sumud Flotilla activists announce 2026 mission to Gaza
Medicinal Plants Support Men’s Health in South Africa: Why This Knowledge Needs Safekeeping
Without systematic documentation, traditional plants’ uses could be lost or excluded from mainstream medical discourse.
Freedom Front Plus Warns Against Gradual Decline of Boksburg Clinics
The ongoing shortage of medicine and basic medical care at clinics in Boksburg is indicative of a systematic collapse of primary healthcare services in the Ekurhuleni Metro. Complaints received by the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) are not isolated incidents, but form part of an obvious pattern of poor management, negligence and a lack of […]
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Emergency Training Empowers Idasvallei Community
Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) councillor in the Stellenbosch Local Municipality and the party’s Western Cape youth leader, Bernadette Steenkamp – who is also qualified to teach SETA-accredited first aid courses – hosted a practical emergency training session in Idasvallei last Saturday. The aim was to equip community members, especially young people, with essential skills […]
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NHI Negotiations Cannot Centre on a Half-Baked “Potato” and Legal Pressure Should Be Maintained
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus), which has taken the lead in criticising the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill since it was tabled to Parliament in 2019, believes that the nine court cases currently under way against the legislation should proceed at all costs. Negotiations and dialogue on the matter per se are good; and […]
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HIV Funding Still Falls Short of Targets After Pledges: What’s at Stake
A mix of domestic revenue generation, efficiency gains and strategic partnerships is essential to sustain and expand HIV programmes despite declining external aid.
Internet Shutdowns Are Increasing Dramatically in Africa – A New Book Explains Why
Internet shutdown affects millions of Africans more and more often and are most prominent during elections or protests.
Coups in Africa: How Democratic Failings Help Shape Military Takeovers – Study
Popular disappointment in elected governments was a prominent trigger for coup makers.
Clinic Staff Extorting Immigrants to Access Life-Saving Medicines
Immigrants say they are being charged for ARVs, chronic medication and baby immunisations at some Gauteng clinics
Lesotho’s Parliament blocks debate on explosive hospital report
The wife of the foreign affairs minister features prominently in the report
The Ekurhuleni Metro’s primary healthcare services are collapsing
The Ekurhuleni Metro’s primary healthcare services are collapsing. This is clearly evident from the first quarterly report of the Department of Health and Social Development. According to the report, clinics have to operate with dilapidated infrastructure, a serious staff shortage and a lack of essential medical equipment, which means the Metro’s 77 clinics can no […]
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Sudan’s Protesters Built Networks to Fight a Tyrant – Today They Save Lives in a War
Sudan’s neighbourhood committees represent a unique blend of political and practical action. They mobilise for change while addressing immediate community needs.
South Africa Needs to Rethink How It Measures Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities – What’s Lacking
South Africa needs to take pragmatic steps to plug the shortcomings in the data that’s collected on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Understaffed, Crumbling Eastern Cape Clinic Cannot Meet Demand
New temporary structure set to cost R1.2-million and take two years to complete
Boost for ECD and Informal Trade
Today, the Tshwane Department of Economic Development and Spatial Planning, under the political leadership of GOOD’s Councillor Sarah Mabotsa, has brought two important reports to Council for approval.
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State Must Stop Xenophobic Vigilantism at Clinics
Médecins Sans Frontières, Treatment Action Campaign and Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia launched an application in the South Gauteng High Court
Operation Dudula Blocks Access to Clinics, Violating Court Order
Witness testimony plus a visit by GroundUp to clinics confirms this. Clinic security guards are also blocking access to immigrants.