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Healthcare
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.
US and Lesotho Strike 5-Year Health Funding Pact
Abrupt US aid cuts earlier this year caused havoc in the nation’s health system
“I Can Run, I Feel Free”: How Government-Funded Hormones Changed Lilita Singata’s Life
Gender-affirming healthcare can be life-saving, but access is limited
How a Sudanese University Kept Learning Alive During War
For universities, investing in flexible systems is a matter of survival.
Strokes Are on the Rise in Africa: Why the Continent Needs Its Own Care Guidelines
Despite the rising burden of stroke across Africa, there is no continent-wide framework or standardised protocol for stroke management.
Rising Body Count Underscores Cape Town Policing Crisis
The number of people killed in shooting incidents in Cape Town has spiralled since the launch of the Safer Festive Season operations last month, with 40 deaths, mostly gang-related, reported over the past two weekends.
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High Court Rules Operation Dudula Actions Xenophobic and Unlawful
The GOOD Party welcomes the High Court ruling which has declared the actions of Operation Dudula xenophobic and unlawful.
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Yaoundé Is Set to Sizzle at 38°C by 2030: How Green Design Could Cool Cameroon’s Capital
Public ponds, fountains and new reflective buildings are needed to protect Yaoundé’s people from the heat island effect.