Many older reclaimers work without toilets or running water, battling tough conditions at the Nyakallong landfill in the.

Swallowing chicken bones poses a serious health risk according to medical experts. For one Duduza resident, it led lto a nine-day hospital stay with a feeding tube after a seemingly innocent meal.

Residents of Mafefe village in Limpopo are being screened for asbestos-related illnesses as government moves to address contamination from abandoned mines ...

The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) is investigating a case after a five-year-old Grade R learner was injured at a Tshwane primary school and later ...

Informal gold miners working around old mine dumps between Nyakallong and Allanridge in the Free State say they risk exposure to mine dust, mercury and other ...

Health and nutrition experts say the health consequences of South Africa’s food insecurity crisis can begin long before someone becomes sick enough to need ...

A stroke victim's desperate journey highlights the ambulance shortage in the Eastern Cape, leaving patients in peril.

More than 10 intersex adults have approached a South African support organisation since 2020 saying they underwent surgery or other irreversible medical ...

South Africa’s HIV response is, in many ways, a remarkable success story. Millions of people now have access to life-saving antiretroviral treatment (ART), transforming HIV from a fatal illness into a ...

Traditional healers say patients they refer to public clinics can fall through the cracks because the two health systems don’t communicate effectively.

Two families in Nyakallong, Free State, are mourning the deaths of two young boys who drowned in a mine dam near Harmony Gold’s Target 2 Rock Dump in ...

Hunger accelerates disease progression, illness erodes earning potential, and reduced income deepens food insecurity, creating a cycle that medicine alone ...