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On 8 March 2023 , Mbali Hlela Bulunga, a 12-year-old girl, passed through a portal of pain and went to her peace, after first being diagnosed with leukaemia six years earlier.

Cancer: This time it came for me

We are still mourning the death of my 12-year-old daughter Mbali after she was treated for leukaemia

In death, a father meets his daughter

Life is always haunted by death. This is part of what makes it so precious. But what happens when death comes too young, too often, and watches over life too closely?

Theuns Jordaan performs on stage for LondonGoesSA at Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith on August 1, 2014 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images)
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Singer-songwriter Theuns Jordaan dies after short struggle with cancer

The distinctive quality of Theuns Jordaan’s voice meant he became a standard part of the South African music landscape, particularly the Afrikaans market

Lisa King, a Sangamo BioSciences Inc. research associate, isolates DNA at the Sangamo BioSciences lab in Point Richmond, California, U.S., on Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

More ethnically diverse bone marrow donors needed to save lives

The myth that regenerative stem cells are body parts has led to donor reluctance

KwaZulu-Natal shows that leukaemia is 24 times higher here than anywhere else in the country. Half the schoolchildren in the area suffer from asthma.

Rights group wins court bid against Engen

The Right2Know Campaign has been allowed to join a court case against Engen, which used the Regulation of Gatherings Act to ban protests outside its Durban refinery

Restricted: The South Durban Basin Community Development Trust is challenging the Gatherings Act, arguing that it contradicts sections of the Bill of Rights, which includes the right to protest. (Delwyn Verasamy/ M&G)

Durban smokestacks back in court

Engen will oppose the application by civil rights nonproft Right2Know to be a friend of the court in the precedent-setting case

But anyone seeking to extend the life of their own pet mouse by 36%

Apple a day keeps Grim Squeaker away*

There have been many success stories in efforts to extend the human lifespan in the past 200 years