11 August 2017

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) urges all South African to end a “conspiracy of silence” around the abuse of women.
The organisation has issued the following statement: National Women’s Day offers an opportunity to recognise the struggle for substantive gender equality in South Africa; to celebrate acts of courage by women who played a remarkable role in our history; to reflect on progress made in the achievement of equality for women and girls; and to advocate for change.

11 August 2017

The principal of the Siyathuthuka Secondary School‚ at which a pupil was savagely assaulted‚ was not allowed to speak to the media on Friday when the KwaZulu-Natal education department visited the school.

13 August 2017

Footage of the assault circulated on social media this week.

DURBAN - The KwaZulu-Natal Education Department says it will launch an independent probe into the brutal attack of a girl at Siyathuthuka Secondary School.

13 August 2017

Cape Town - The DA on Sunday said it would report Higher Education deputy minister Mduduzi Manana to the Commission for Gender Equality following allegations of mistreatment by female staff members in his department.

‘Patient waiting time will be reduced to less than a month within the next six months’

15 August 2017

NGWELEZANA Hospital has opened an oncology clinic which is geared to provide full treatment and care to cancer patients locally.

16 August 2017

The DA can reveal that the Department of Health spends close to R500 million to treat more than 14 000 children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) each year.

16 August 2017

Cape Town - Deaths in police custody continue, with official statistics showing that 266 people died in detention during the last financial year.

Recently, newspapers carried an article about a 44-year old gender activist who was raped behind some bushes at night. Most readers likely skipped over it and turned to the sports pages. SA needs a concrete plan to stop gender violence

17 August 2017

Perhaps partly because of the familiarity of the scenario, or partly to protect the reader from yet another story about “bad and violent things” happening in South Africa.

17 August 2017

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi will on Friday be meeting with KwaZulu-Natal Premier Willies Mchunu and other relevant stakeholders to discuss the oncology crisis in the province.

18 August 2017

He said the biggest challenge is poor planning of human resources.

KwaZulu-Natal’s dysfunctional public health department can be blamed on a systematic breakdown of core functions, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday.