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Luxury: South Africa’s two-tier healthcare system offers selective protection to those who can afford medical aid contributions, co-payments and out-of-pocket expenses. (Photo Archive)
GENDER

Happiness is … gender-affirming surgery

‘I can feel the pain, yes. But the excitement itself counteracts the pain’

  • Carl Collison
3 min read
Madikizela-Mandela was regularly detained
AGENCY

‘All South Africans are indebted to Mama Winnie’ – Nelson Mandela Foundation

Madikizela-Mandela, an anti-apartheid struggle icon, was also the former wife of late president Nelson Mandela

  • Agency
1 min read
Waiting game: Groote Schuur’s Dr Kevin Adams is the only surgeon in the country who can craft a penis from vaginal tissue.
GENDER AFFIRMING SURGERY

‘Ambassadors’ for trans surgery rally for better services

The inaccessibility to gender-affirming surgery is discouraging to transgender people seeking these services

  • Carl Collison
5 min read