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‘Cancer-related insurance claims on the rise, post-Covid-19’

Cancer accounted for about 32.3% of all insurer Liberty’s claims for 2023 This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail &…

A ‘cancer causing’ herbicide has been found in South Africa’s bread and flour. (Photo by Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

A ‘cancer causing’ herbicide has been found in South Africa’s bread and flour

About half of South Africa’s maize crop and 100% of the soya crop is genetically modified — it’s grown with the use of glyphosate. But Bayer South Africa disagrees that it causes…

While the City has said that the low fee is for “social related” use, Nick Budlender, a researcher at Ndifuna Ukwazi, said that the membership of the sports facilities contradicts their social value. (Reuters/Andy Clark)

Sports clubs eyed for low-cost housing in Cape Town

Sports clubs are paying the City of Cape Town less per year to lease prime land than it costs to rent a shack for a month

‘My mom was too scared to check what was wrong. In the end

‘My mom was too scared to check what was wrong. In the end, doctors removed her womb’

Early screening for cervical cancer can be a lifesaver but are nonprofit organisations enough to fill the gap in KZN’s crumbling system?

Cape Town photographer

Mo Bros face the figures – and it’s going to be a close shave

Will local facial hair campaigners be able to raise more than last year’s R7-million for men’s health issues?

Eat yourself healthy: your dose of cancer-busting foods

Eat yourself healthy: your dose of cancer-busting foods

A healthy diet has been touted as an easier way to reduce the risk of falling ill from the the various cancers out there.

A life gone up in smoke

Tobacco is the only legally available product that kills people when it is used entirely as intended.

New look at cancer causes

Environmental factors may contribute to about 90% of all cancers. Belinda Beresford reports.