Healthcare

Pandemics: A social justice issue

Article Ayesha Jacub - 25 Mar 2020

Framing coronavirus as a security threat is not the only possible approach

The NHI could provide a dose of social justice for South Africa

Article Kayla Arnold - 15 Mar 2020

But to do so, it will have to provide genuine universal access to marginalised communities, including refugees and migrants

How to refresh SA’s jaded democracy

Article Ivan Turok & Andreas Scheba - 11 Mar 2020

We should look to the Philippines, where barangays, or neighbourhood governments, help to empower communities

Coronavirus reaction: Sinophobia with Western characteristics

Analysis Ahmed Olayinka Sule - 24 Feb 2020

Western media has racialised the coronavirus outbreak, leading to increased Sinophobia in several countries. Such dehumanisation of a race has no place in functioning democracies

South Africa’s teen moms are on their own

Article Tebadi Mmotla - 9 Feb 2020

State health facilities and the school curriculum have failed the youth, forcing young mothers into unsupported single parenthood

Human development is under threat

Article Alf Gunvald Nilsen - 13 Dec 2019

Achieving significant progress means we are going to have to ditch neoliberal capitalism

The future of health in South Africa

Article Romulen Pillay - 22 Nov 2019

Digital health technology is already having a huge impact on healthcare, both for patients and health professionals

People are the heart of healthcare

Article Jasper Westerink - 31 Oct 2019

Digital health technology can empower people to take better care of their own health

Learning and research for 21st Century capacity development

Article Leigh Wils - 27 Sep 2019

UP medical students work in the community to understand what it means to be a practitioner at all levels

Community healthcare workers are the link

Article Leigh Wils - 27 Sep 2019

They often identify additional problems, such as people needing food, IDs and housing

Using the COPC Toolkit to plan integrated healthcare delivery

Article Advertorial Supplement - 27 Sep 2019

The toolkit integrates data to better predict and respond to health needs in an area

The power, the purse strings and the NHI

Article Russel Rensburg - 20 Sep 2019

The NHI Bill proposes major shifts in who controls our national and provincial health budgets. Will the draft legislation rob provinces of control?

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Western Cape Judge Mushtak Parker faces second misconduct complaint

Franny Rabkin - 1 Apr 2020

The Cape Bar Council says his conduct is ‘unbecoming the holding of judicial office’

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The Mogale Centre: A place of hope for young offenders

Athandiwe Saba - 30 Mar 2020

In the last story of her series about children behind bars, Athandiwe Saba speaks to young men who have committed serious crimes and are now living behind the walls of the Mogale Child and Youth Care Centre

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