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Can you pause a pandemic? Inside the race to stop spread of Covid-19
Tracing the close contacts of people who test positive for coronavirus disease is a delicate dance. Here’s why these health workers wait for the cover of darkness to take action
Ace Magashule’s wild Free State: Activists faced intimidation, whistle-blowers fled
Death threats and intimidation drove one man to leave the country after exposing crumbling conditions within the province’s health system.
Three things we exposed about the Free State under Ace Magashule’s watch
Magashule finally shuffled controversial health MEC Benny Malakoane sideways in his provincial cabinet in 2016 but not before we uncovered this.
Health MEC’s deadly PR parade
As Benny Malakoane showed off progress in Free State, 317 patients were left in the dark over their cancer status.
Report finds Free State health services ‘ineffective’
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.