Who bears responsibility When Children Die Due to Funding Cuts?
Both the US and Mozambican governments have failed
Healthcare
Red Flags Raised Over New Shelter for Durban’s Homeless
The eThekwini municipality’s Sakhithemba Homeless Shelter in Illovo is about 25 kilometres from Durban’s city centre
Freedom Front Plus Tentatively Supports Premier’s Budget, Votes Against Legislature’s Budget
On Thursday, the Northern Cape Legislature debated the budget votes for the Premier and the Legislature. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) voted against the Legislature’s budget and supported the Premier’s budget, albeit with serious reservations. The entire provincial government revolves around these two budget votes. The Legislature’s primary function is oversight of departments and […]
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Gauteng Health Department’s Poor Handling of Clinic Doctors’ Employment
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) reproached the Gauteng Department of Health for its clumsy attempt to dismiss clinic doctors and then rehire them as service providers, despite a critical shortage of doctors at clinics and hospitals. During the Gauteng Legislature’s debate on the Department’s 2025/26 budget, the Freedom Front Plus expressed its disapproval of […]
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Operation Dudula Blocks Babies From Getting Vaccines
Vigilante group is controlling clinic queues in Johannesburg
University Graduates in Ghana Must Serve Society for a Year – Study Suggests It’s Good for National Unity
Mandatory national service in Ghana has helped national cohesion.
Treasury Hands HIV Response a Lifeline, but It’s Probably Too Little
UNAIDS says US funding cuts put decades of progress against HIV in jeopardy
Gauteng Government Scrambles to Meet Drug Rehab Targets
Substance use disorder programme decimated by 2024 funding cuts
Nurses Suspended After Video of Naked Patient Circulates on Social Media
Residents of Whittlesea in the Eastern Cape stage series of protests over treatment at hospital
What the SA Human Rights Commission Is Doing to Advance Queer Rights
SAHRC is involved in a number of initiatives including high-profile litigation
R10-Million Emergency Lottery Funding for Flood-Ravaged Eastern Cape
The money was approved swiftly using a new funding mechanism that replaced one that had been mired in corruption
Starlink Launches Amid Job Losses in Lesotho
Elon Musk’s satellite internet service comes after months of US funding cuts and tariffs put immense pressure on the country’s economy
South Africa Needs to Do More to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance, Warn Experts
This is a “pandemic which is wreaking havoc, is not being attended to properly and not being taken seriously enough”
These Are the Children the United States Left to Die
Part one: How the Trump Administration abandoned orphans with HIV
Youth Day: We Are Not a ‘Lost’ Generation but a …
GOOD Statement by Kaden Arguile,GOOD National Youth Chairperson 16 June 2025 From the moment a child is born in South Africa, they face barriers in every direction. If they’re lucky, they’ll survive a chronically underfunded healthcare system. If their home is unstable, the chance of receiving help from an overwhelmed and under-resourced social worker is […]
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Cape Town Mothers in Silent March for Gaza
Israel has blocked food from entering Gaza and killed more than 200 people at distribution points
Western Cape Budget 2.0: Still Missing the Mark
GOOD Speech by Brett Herron ,GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament 11 June 2025 *Note to editor: This speech was delivered by GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament Brett Herron during today’s debate on the Western Cape Budget The 2025 Western Cape Budget 2.0, which had the opportunity to […]
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Heideveld Hospital’s Deplorable Conditions
GOOD Statement by Siyabulela Mamkeli,GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor 10 June 2025 The GOOD Party is appalled by the inhumane and unsanitary conditions witnessed at Heideveld Hospital. A symptom of a public healthcare system that is broken, underfunded, and in desperate need of urgent intervention. GOOD has seen deeply disturbing footage of a young […]
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Cardiologist “Gags” Carte Blanche
Despite having had multiple chances to respond, Dr Ntando Duze still managed to secure an interdict to halt the airing of a programme on allegations of malpractice
New Book by Edwin Cameron Gives Practical Steps to Reform Prisons
“The biggest public policy mistake of the last 125 years was the war on drugs”
Ramaphosa Should Do the Honourable Thing Regarding NHI
President Cyril Ramaphosa should do the honourable thing and explain to South Africans why he signed the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act into law shortly before last year’s elections. On 6 May this year, the North Gauteng High Court ruled, in the case involving the Board of Healthcare Funders and the SA Private Practitioners Forum, […]
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Healthcare Hijacked: Crackdown on Unqualified Practitioner Exploiting Atlantis Community Demanded
The GOOD Party is calling for urgent action against an allegedly irregular and unqualified medical practice exploiting the healthcare vacuum in Atlantis, putting lives at risk and undermining trust in the health system. A chronic lack of access to adequate provincial healthcare has left the community of Atlantis vulnerable, and into that void stepped Sister […]
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Lesotho’s Health System Has Been Decimated by US Funding Cuts
60% of the country’s HIV counsellors have been laid off and the country’s TB programme is faltering
Hundreds of State Mental Health Patients Are Being Kept in Prison
There are not enough beds in South Africa’s 13 psychiatric hospitals