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SANBS now a digital blood donation system to attract youth and improve experience

Healthcare

SANBS now a digital blood donation system to attract youth and improve experience

Issued by Bidvest Mobility 25 Mar 2024

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Healthcare

Unveiling the heroes: A look behind the scenes of integrating palliative care into SA's public health system

Katja Hamilton 14 Mar 2024

The Limpopo Mirror is published in Louis Trichardt, a town in the north of South Africa’s Limpopo province. Photo: Anton van Zyl

Marketing & Media

Google and Facebook are killing local news

Nathan Geffen and Anton van Zyl 8 Mar 2024

Healthcare

Unemployed doctors march to Union Buildings

Silver Sibiya 28 Feb 2024

Healthcare

Is it time for a Cancer Act in South Africa?

Noni Sophe 15 Feb 2024

Healthcare

Medical union urges action on unemployment crisis for doctors

5 Jan 2024

Healthcare

NCOP's NHI approval: No surprise here

Mike Settas 12 Dec 2023

World Health Day - Listen to your gut

Healthcare

World Health Day - Listen to your gut

Issued by CANSA 11 Apr 2023

Source: iStock. Police cleared burning tyres at Tshepong Hospital in Klerksdorp on Tuesday (7 March 2023) as Nehawu members picketed outside the hospital.

Healthcare

Tensions mount as Nehawu strike intensifies

Katja Hamilton 8 Mar 2023

Healthcare

SA's birth control stock shortage a major setback for women's reproductive health rights

Katja Hamilton 13 Dec 2022

Healthcare

Dis-Chem enters health-insurance market with launch of Dis-Chem Health

17 Mar 2022

An arbitrator appointed by the Public Health and Social Development Sectoral Bargaining Council has dismissed Nehawu’s bid to have community health workers permanently employed by the state. Archive photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane

Legal

Community health workers: arbitrator rules against Nehawu

12 Nov 2021

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Healthcare

Covid-19: shaping Africa's future healthcare systems

29 Oct 2021

The roadmap to entrepreneurial success: powerful strategies from the top for building a truly successful business

Marketing & Media

The roadmap to entrepreneurial success: powerful strategies from the top for building a truly successful business

Issued by Topco Media 15 Oct 2021

Novartis pledges R13.3m to support SA efforts in alleviating Covid-19 pressures

ESG & Sustainability

Novartis pledges R13.3m to support SA efforts in alleviating Covid-19 pressures

18 May 2020

A community health worker screening a child’s hearing in Cape Town. Ora Buerkli

Healthcare

We used smartphones to screen young children for vision and hearing loss

De Wet Swanepoel 14 Oct 2019

South Africa has a skewed healthcare system with an under-funded public sector and an expensive private sector. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Why South Africa's plans for universal healthcare are pie in the sky

Alex van den Heever 19 Aug 2019

Climate and mortality rates in Kenya, Mali, and Malawi: what we found

ESG & Sustainability

Climate and mortality rates in Kenya, Mali, and Malawi: what we found

Baishali Bakshi 24 Jul 2019

A child about to have his rotten tooth capped at the author’s clinic in Khartoum, Sudan. Author provided

Healthcare

Saving children's teeth in Sudan - without anaesthetic or drills

Fadil Elamin 25 Jun 2019

Cyclone Idai: Rich countries are to blame for disasters like this - here's how they can make amends

ESG & Sustainability

Cyclone Idai: Rich countries are to blame for disasters like this - here's how they can make amends

Michael Mikulewicz and Tahseen Jafry 25 Mar 2019

People queue in makeshift camps following past threats of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Today, rescinded health department memos requesting foreigners pay in full for healthcare have sparked a national debate. (Fredrik Lemeryd)

Healthcare

Are foreigners really entitled to free healthcare in South Africa?

Sasha Stevenson 13 Mar 2019

Photo: David Harrison

Healthcare

#BudgetSpeech2019: Will it lead to more doctors being sued for negligence?

Daniel McLaren 21 Feb 2019

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. Photo:GCIS

Healthcare

Are foreigners stealing your jobs and healthcare? Find out.

Savo Heleta, Sharon Ekambaram & Sibongile Tshabala 23 Nov 2018

Flickr/Rafiq Sarlie

Healthcare

New healthcare plan promises to overhaul South Africa's massively skewed system

Russell Rensburg 28 Aug 2018

Jakarta’s traffic system is one of many facets of the city that could be improved by smart cities technologies, but at what cost? ,

Construction & Engineering

Three scenarios show we have to think carefully about ethics in designing smart cities

Anthony Burke and Prasuna Reddy 19 Mar 2018

Healthcare

#BizTrends2018: Private healthcare in SA - continued decline and a solution

Dr Brian Ruff 10 Jan 2018

ICT development initiative in Nigeria

Marketing & Media

ICT development initiative in Nigeria

9 Feb 2017

Marketing & Media

Making music and electricity with new Spark invention

15 Jul 2016

World Cup legacy lives on

Lifestyle

World Cup legacy lives on

Nthambeleni Gabara 20 Aug 2013

Government

Gauteng appoints audit firm to clean up health

31 May 2013

Healthcare

Advocate urges litigation over PMBs

2 Aug 2012

Legal

Advocate urges litigation over PMBs

2 Aug 2012

Healthcare

Gauteng ready to pilot NHI

24 Apr 2012

Healthcare improvements rapidly embracing new IT in Africa

Healthcare

Healthcare improvements rapidly embracing new IT in Africa

7 Mar 2011

New WHO report highlights second-hand smoke danger

Healthcare

New WHO report highlights second-hand smoke danger

Dr Ananya Mandal, MD 26 Nov 2010

Healthcare

Lack of quality healthcare causes rise in SA's orphans

2 Jun 2010

Football for Hope Centre opened in Khayelitsha

Healthcare

Football for Hope Centre opened in Khayelitsha

7 Dec 2009