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South African healthcare workers say the country’s regulations stop them from finding alternative, more climate-friendly ways of running hospitals and dealing with waste. (Canva)
ALLIANCE FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION

Waste, food and power: How hospitals fuel climate change

Almost 5% of the world’s carbon emissions come from the healthcare sector. Rethinking how hospitals run can get this down. But healthcare workers say regulations stop them from…

  • Zano Kunene
  • Sipokazi Fokazi
5 min read
Practitioners will have to pay registration fees to the council every year and show proof of being appropriately trained for the type of service they offer. (Photo supplied)
ALMA ATA DECLARATION OF 1978

By 2025, sangomas will have to be registered to practise

The health department says new regulations likely to come into force early next year are a step towards getting Western and traditional medicine to work together

  • Sipokazi Fokazi
7 min read
Lithium mines in Zimbabwe’s communal areas deprive people of their land rights, grazing land and water. Photo: Madelene Cronjé
ARTICLE

Rural KwaZulu-Natal is helping the world find a TB vaccine

Despite being a preventable and curable disease, about 150 people died from TB every day in South Africa in 2022

  • Sipokazi Fokazi
10 min read