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ELECTION 2026 | Power outage puts partially blind Midvaal woman’s safety at risk
Health-e News ELECTION 2026 | Power outage puts partially blind Midvaal woman’s safety at risk 53-year-old Moipone Mahonko, who is partially blind, has suffered burns and cuts while cooking over an open fire since a prolonged electricity outage left 116 households in Lakeside…
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Tshikota residents call for public clinic as transport costs add to healthcare burden
Health-e News Tshikota residents call for public clinic as transport costs add to healthcare burden When Tshikota resident Dipou Moyo recently suddenly lost consciousness in the middle of the night, she was fortunate to have a relative who could drive her to Louis Trichardt…
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OP-ED | Private interests threaten South Africa’s tobacco control efforts
Health-e News OP-ED | Private interests threaten South Africa’s tobacco control efforts A bill to strengthen tobacco control in South Africa is slowly making progress. Parliament’s Health Committee voted in favour of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control…
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ELECTIONS 2026 | Seshego residents endure smoke from burning waste and sewage stench
Health-e News ELECTIONS 2026 | Seshego residents endure smoke from burning waste and sewage stench 41-year-old Richard Lebea, who has lived with asthma since childhood, says living next to a wastewater treatment plant and an illegal dumping site on the outskirts of Seshego…
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“I need more support” — KZN mother raising three children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Health-e News “I need more support” — KZN mother raising three children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy For Philile Hlophe, caring for three wheelchair-bound children living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) means managing their daily physical care in an overcrowded home, while…
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ELECTIONS 2026 | Sewage flows through Musina neighbourhood as residents fear for their health
Health-e News ELECTIONS 2026 | Sewage flows through Musina neighbourhood as residents fear for their health Residents in Musina, Limpopo, are concerned about their health as sewage continues to flow through residential streets. Unreliable water supplies force some households to…
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Mother seeks justice eight years after alleged assault on daughter at Tshwane school
Health-e News Mother seeks justice eight years after alleged assault on daughter at Tshwane school A Soshanguve mother says her daughter suffered serious head injuries after allegedly being assaulted by a teacher in 2018 when she was six years old. The girl, now 14, requires…
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ELECTIONS 2026 | Giyani villagers forced to buy water as boreholes fail ahead of elections
Health-e News ELECTIONS 2026 | Giyani villagers forced to buy water as boreholes fail ahead of elections Residents of Makhuvha village near Giyani in Limpopo say they have been struggling to access clean water since a communal borehole stopped working in March last year, forcing…
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‘I am tired of living in pain’: Woman with PMOS struggles to access specialist care
Health-e News ‘I am tired of living in pain’: Woman with PMOS struggles to access specialist care 24-year-old Regomoditse Kgomo has struggled to access specialist treatment for polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) and endometriosis through Gauteng’s public healthcare…
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ELECTIONS 2026 | Blind residents demand safer roads and pedestrian crossings in Hammanskraal
Health-e News ELECTIONS 2026 | Blind residents demand safer roads and pedestrian crossings in Hammanskraal For 47-year-old Jonas Molefe Motau, who is blind, getting to work means navigating rocky roads, potholes and a busy road without a pedestrian crossing in Stinkwater,…
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ELECTIONS 2026 | ‘No network, no voting’: Campbell residents struggle to call ambulances
Health-e News ELECTIONS 2026 | ‘No network, no voting’: Campbell residents struggle to call ambulances When Forget Ndou’s sister went into labour in March this year, she had to run about a kilometre from her home at 2am to find a cellphone signal so she could call an ambulance.…
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ELECTIONS 2026 | Meriting families demand electricity after deadly illegal connections
Health-e News ELECTIONS 2026 | Meriting families demand electricity after deadly illegal connections 64-year-old Josephine Nyama says when she received a call from neighbours at 6am on New Year’s Day, she heard the shocking news that her brother had been found dead on live wires…
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OP-ED | ‘We are not born bad, we are shaped’ — How childhood trauma shapes violence
Health-e News OP-ED | ‘We are not born bad, we are shaped’ — How childhood trauma shapes violence Over two years, Plant Play has reached 542 children aged between 10 and 15 in Diepsloot, Gauteng, one of the thirty gender-based violent hotspot areas in South Africa. These areas…