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Affirming medicine as a public good

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Medical science has developed hugely powerful technologies that can be used for social purposes. But to achieve this, it needs to be clearly on the side of the people
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Why Covid likely won’t change the plight of community health workers

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In the absence of action from the health department, South Africa’s community health workers are once again having to fight for their rights, with a nationwide strike planned from 9 November.
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NGOs today: Competing for resources, power and agency

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NGOs play a critical role in advancing social change and transformation, but their current funding model needs to be addressed for them to make a sustainable impact in South Africa
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South Africa’s teen moms are on their own

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

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He has objected to a statement calling for him to be prosecuted and says he’s been criminally defamed
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Editorial: From the embers of fire, stoke hope

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It is the likes of emergency services —the firemen and the paramedics —who bear the brunt for shortfalls in the public purse
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Are provinces ready to take the wheel of South Africa’s HIV response?

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It’s been a steep learning curve for districts that sometimes don’t have the know-how — or the data — to write and track local plans.
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Saftu: Working Class Summit to counter partisan trade unionism

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The federation wants to bring together trade unions and civil society to fight the capitalist class
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Editorial: A protest of hope

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'South Africans are so inured to protests that a small protest at an NPA office in Cape Town barely registers'
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South Africa has a model Bill of Rights. But it doesn’t seem that way

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As South Africa marks Human Rights Day, it's a good time to reflect on the problems it faces in making constitutional rights a reality
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Three things we exposed about the Free State under Ace Magashule’s watch

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Magashule finally shuffled controversial health MEC Benny Malakoane sideways in his provincial cabinet in 2016 but not before we uncovered this.
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ANC denies removal of Free State health MEC has to do with fraud and #firebenny

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Benny Malakoane ‘did an excellent job’ despite tales of fraud, dismissals and hospitals in crisis.
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Mbeki deserves to be condemned by history, says TAC

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The ex-president will be judged harshly for his unrepentant stance over an estimated 300 000 HIV-related deaths, the activist organisation says.
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Health MEC’s deadly PR parade

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As Benny Malakoane showed off progress in Free State, 317 patients were left in the dark over their cancer status.
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Report finds Free State health services ‘ineffective’

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A commission of inquiry into the the Free State's healthcare has found that the province's lack of services endanger the lives of vulnerable people.
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