There is only one doctor for every 200 000 people in Thyolo, Malawi. Médecins Sans Frontières has started training ordinary people to take over simple tasks from qualified medical staff.
For one HIV-positive mother and her daughter in Malawi, collecting medication takes a day’s journey. Now their local clinic has started dispensing HIV treatment. MSF shares their story, as organisations gather in Durban for the fifth South African Aids Conference.
Police training academies schooling their recruits in violence, the latest in the plot allegations around President Jacob Zuma, and the naked truth about <i>Playboy SA</i>: We take a peek into the <i>M&G</i> newsroom on deadline day. Watch the video.
Hidden cellphone footage reveals a SAPS commander hitting trainees during a training session.
Acclaimed South African author Lauren Beukes takes us inside Zoo City, her latest novel which has won her the prestigious Arthur C Clarke award, giving insight to the characters and themes in the book, as well as answering the inevitable question — what’s next?
To celebrate SA author Lauren Beukes’ win of the Arthur C Clarke award, three ex-offenders read from prison chapters in the award-winning book Zoo City.
SA author Lauren Beukes, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award for Literature, reads from the winning novel Zoo City at an event at Die Boekehuis.
In the run-up to the high-level United Nations meeting on HIV/AIDS on June 8-10, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has produced a video series on HIV in southern Africa. This one follows a day in the life of Maria and showcases the use of community groups to increase access to HIV treatment in Mozambique’s rural areas.
Watch our video tour as we take you inside the M&G newsroom on deadline day, and into the stories that made this edition. This is the first in a weekly series.
M&G editor Nic Dawes shares his take on the local elections. Was the DA that successful, is the ANC shaken and will coalitions change the political landscape?