3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (612+ words) Busisiwe Nxedlana sleeps to avoid finishing the food she has been given. What is left has to last, because she does not know when more is coming. Nxedlana, a mother of two from Happy Valley in Cape Town, started feeling…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (620+ words) By Tulani Ngwenya for Oxpeckers For decades residents of eMbalenhle, a large township in Govan Mbeki Municipality in Mpumalanga, have lived and died in the plumes of Sasol’s Secunda plant. The plant also produces by‑products like ammonia, but it…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (924+ words) • Dr Jacob Modumoh was placed on precautionary suspension after claims of serious misconduct involving foot-and-mouth disease vaccine prices during the outbreak. • Agriculture Minister Willie Aucamp says the state-owned vaccine company should not make excessive profits while farmers battle the country’s…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (279+ words) The Health Department says patients who notice their medicine looks different, or are told their usual brand is out of stock, should not assume there is a shortage or that their treatment has changed. Spokesperson Foster Mohale said the department…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (474+ words) For pensioner Stephen Molete, getting a new pair of glasses could have meant taking money away from groceries and helping his children. Instead, the 66-year-old Soweto resident says he paid just R30 for an eye test and glasses at the Phelophepa…...