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Listeria: Follow SA’s medical sleuths as they chase a killer in a race against time

Joan van Dyk

As deaths mount, take an inside look at the detectives working around the clock to solve the country’s medical mystery.


#LifeEsidimeni: Qedani Mahlangu's ego and the death of 143 patients

Bhekisisa Reporters

The former Health MEC claims her subordinates withheld information from her. But she’s being accused 
of misleading the legislature.


#LifeEsidimeni: Did Mahlangu keep David Makhura in the dark?

Laura Lopez Gonzalez

Mahlangu didn't know many of the details of the doomed mental health project but says she deserves the credit for instituting the ombud investigation.


Why government's new condom tender could waste millions of rands

Tian Johnson

Activists warn new data shows government may have invested millions into the wrong female condom and may be on the verge of doing it again.


#LifeEsidimeni: What Qedani Mahlangu’s testimony may mean for David Makhura

Laura Lopez Gonzalez

Accusations fly as the embattled former health MEC finally testifies at the ongoing arbitration hearings.


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Forced abortions: A new frontier in the war on women's bodies?

Partners and families allegedly drugged women and in some cases even physically restrained them as doctors performed the procedure.


Listeria outbreak: Why your back-to-school lunch box staples may be dangerous

Worried your child could be at risk of contracting the bug as they head back to school? You might have to leave polony off the menu.


Women forced into sex to pay hospital bills, study says

Patients too poor to settle medical debts are chained to drain pipes, starved and abused in health centres across parts of Africa.