No-fee school sends learners home for not paying donations
Alfonso Arries Primary School in Gqeberha said parents took a decision to donate R100 per child to fix the crumbling school
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Former tavern has served as a clinic for decades
Eastern Cape health department has no funds to build Tsomo a clinic
US funding remains frozen for many life-saving services
Despite waivers, court judgments and assurances from the embassy, USAID funding for projects that provide HIV medication has not resumed
Nearly five years and R38-million later, Mamelodi families still don’t have a clinic
The City of Tshwane fired the construction company last year
Chaos outside Cape Town schools as parents demand places for their children
Parents say their children are subjected to poor learning conditions at Solomon Mahlangu Primary School
Over 100 learners squeeze into one room at this overcrowded school
Ketlane Primary School in Limpopo says its pleas for help from the provincial education department have gone unanswered
Teenager hitchhiking to the nearest clinic delivers her stillborn baby on the roadside
Villagers in the Eastern Cape town where Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born often wait six hours for an ambulance
HIV patients go weeks without medicines after US aid cut
Legal challenges have restored funding but damage has been done
Fraud flagged at the Compensation Fund
The Fund has been failing audits for 12 years and counting, Parliament told
Khayelitsha school still without stationery
Western Cape Education Department has urged the formation of a school governing body to help deal with issues at the school
No money to fix broken clinic, says health department
Patients say no maintenance has been done on Colchester’s health facility since 2020
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“All I want is a job” pleads unemployed doctor
Unemployed health graduates march in Pretoria, demanding urgent action from Treasury
Children walk over an hour and wade across a river to get to Fort Beaufort school
The bridge to Oakdene Primary washed away about 15 years ago
Protest outside Delft community health centre after baby’s death
The health department says the centre cannot treat patients who need specialist care and the child was referred to Tygerberg Hospital
Limpopo villagers protest over “one-nurse clinic”
The department has now temporarily closed Valdezia clinic
Cheap tik takes hold in Tshwane townships
An uptick in psychosis has followed
Community health workers must be made permanent, rules labour court
Over 50,000 people affected
Health workers bring Gqeberha hospital to a standstill
Strike since Monday at Dora Nginza Hospital over unpaid overtime
Over a hundred disabled and elderly people queue outside SASSA in Khayelitsha
Monday was the first day for disability grant applicants to make medical bookings
