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Male domination: People in Durban protest against gender-based violence. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)
CONSTITUTION

Rape law challenge driven by emotion, ego – justice ministry

The department is opposing a bid to declare unconstitutional the defence a rape accused can use — that they believed the victim had consented

  • Emsie Ferreira
9 min read
Back to where it began: The child in the precedent-setting judgment was born with cerebral palsy following the negligence of maternity staff at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital. Photo: Lesedi Sikwe
BISHO HIGH COURT

Gauteng health department fails to provide bulk of care promised to cerebral palsy patient

In a precedent-setting negligence case brought by a woman on behalf of her cerebral palsy child, a judge in Gauteng allowed the department to offer services in its own facilities…

  • Ray Hartle
6 min read
Hundreds of South African members of the non-governmental organisation Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protest outside the Life Esidimeni arbitration public hearing on January 22, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. At least 143 mentally ill patients died after South African authorities moved them in 2016 from hospital to unlicensed health facilities that were compared to “concentration camps”, a government investigation revealed on January 17, 2018. Many of the deaths were due to pneumonia, dehydration and diarrhoea, as the patients were hurriedly shifted to 27 “poorly-prepared” facilities in an apparent cost-cutting measure that showed evidence of neglect. / AFP PHOTO / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)
ADILA HASSIM

Poor government decisions caused Life Esidimeni deaths, inquest hears

Health officials pushed ahead with transferring patients to ill-equipped NGO facilities despite several warnings

  • Chris Gilili
  • Charma du Plessis
3 min read
ASTHMA

Engen refuses to engage with Durban’s blast affected community

Years of poor maintenance at Engen’s Durban plant caused pollution and December explosion

  • Chris Gilili
4 min read
Kgosi Mampuru sources claimed that negligence was rife at the facility, resulting in the suspicious deaths of inmates, as well as the brazen escape of 9 December 2020. (Oupa Nkosi, M&G)
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

Escapees still at large amid negligence allegations at Tshwane prison

The escape of violent offenders has exposed a slew of alleged negligent deaths at Kgosi Mampuru prison

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read
CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

Inside the brazen prison break at Kgosi Mampuru

Negligence and staff shortages are blamed for after two violent criminals escaped from the prison

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read
The site where Tshiamo Hleza died
CHILDREN

Construction sites are a ‘death trap’

Four children died at Pretoria sites in just two weeks, but companies deny they’re to blame

  • Bongekile Macupe
6 min read