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/ 30 January 2015
Some of the Free State health workers charged for gathering ‘illegally’ after a services protest accept a plea bargain, but the rest will soldier on.
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/ 28 January 2015
Free State healthcare workers say they are being punished for having dared to defy health MEC Benny Malakoane publicly.
The Free State R74 highway fiasco hit businesses, cost jobs and caused a slump in the local market
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/ 4 September 2014
Community workers are twiddling their thumbs while the state drags its heels on a new strategy, writes Mia Malan.
Health activist group TAC takes Benny Malakoane and others to court for allegedly giving a dying woman’s hospital bed to an ANC official.
Activists have expressed frustration at the corruption trial of Free State MEC Benny Malakoane being postponed for the fifth time.
In this 2014 interview, former Free State health MEC Benny Malakoane says that detractors are still alive is proof of the good work under his watch.
The Free State health department has cast doubt on the quality of a new drug shortages report.
The pressure group has accused the Free State’s health MEC of being behind the intimidation.
Ill residents may suffer most after the axing of Free State community health workers.
The province’s embattled health department is due to investigate a hospital after critical medical supplies were found stored in a transit site.
The province’s health MEC has condemned the slogans marchers on the department have been chanting, calling them insulting and inappropriate.
In a TAC march, workers in the province’s crisis-hit health sector say they will hold a night vigil every Wednesday until demands are met.
A budget spending monitoring forum says the department is on the verge of collapse and is R700-million in debt.
The HIV lobby group says over 100 of its community healthcare workers have been arrested in Bloemfontein after a night vigil sit-in.
Acts such as Malakoane’s go beyond nepotism. They are simply the crudest and cruellest form of political arrogance and corruption.
Appalling conditions in Free State hospitals reveal a health care system that seems to be corrupt from top to bottom.
The TAC says it fears the arrest of over 50 community healthcare workers after they began a sit-in at the province’s health department headquarters.
Free State’s health department has been reported to the SA Human Rights Commission over "rights violations" such as food shortages and overcrowding.
The TAC and Section27 say their investigation into the province’s health department shows it needs urgent intervention by three state ministries.
While many say the Free State health department’s financial situation is dire, officials say "there’s no problem at all".
The ruling ANC had won the Free State but dropped below 70% of support while the DA is again the official opposition.
The Free State health department has come under fire for a number of reasons. Bhekisisa visited the province ahead of elections to find out more.
Rent arrears have shut a clinic’s doors – just 500m from the Free State health MEC’s office.
The Free State’s declining mineral wealth is a metaphor for what might happen to the ANC’s support in the upcoming May 7 election.
South Africa has a prosperous future in the hands of the ANC, says Free State Premier Ace Magashule.
A controversial R570-million Free State dairy project is riddled with irregularities, investigators for the national treasury have found.
Free State Premier Ace Magashule’s response to a scandal surrounding a dairy scheme indicates he feels no need to account for R342m of public funds.
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/ 27 November 2013
At least in one in every five public health facilities in the country has run out of HIV and/or TB drugs in the last two months, says a report.
Central University of Technology in the Free State creates a strategic and brilliant platform to lead South Africans into the future.
Speakers at the 14th annual Rapdasa conference look set to deliver extraordinary insight into additive manufacturing across the world.
CUT takes the role of education to the next level.