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There are serious concerns over the safety of health workers at public health facilities in the Eastern Cape, with some healthcare workers saying they are scared to go to work. Although the provincial health department says it shares this concern, it remains tight-lipped about its plans and the relevant security contracts. Luvuyo Mehlwana spoke to union representatives, healthcare workers and some security personnel about the situation.

South African regulators have now defined crypto as a financial asset. But what does it mean in practice?

Healthcare is a basic human right. The constitutional mandate of the Department of Health is to provide healthcare services in response to the needs of the people of South Africa within available resources. Given the strain on currently available resources, the department has established an efficient and effective contracting mechanism for vaccines and medicines. Furthermore, the contracting mechanism is aligned with all National Treasury regulations and prescripts.

Hammanskraal falls under the control of one of the biggest metros in the country — and our capital city. Imagine what’s happening to those in our far-flung rural areas?

The DA says the funds used to honour Grammy Award winners was a waste of taxpayers’ money and should have gone to a more worthy cause.

Businessman Edwin Sodi’s company was not competent nor had the capacity to handle the R295m upgrade of the Rooiwal Water Treatment Plant which has now been allegedly abandoned.

ActionSA filed complaints against the City of Tshwane and its former mayor, Randall Williams, with the Public Protector and the SA Human Rights Commission on Tuesday. This after 15 fatalities were confirmed by the health department on Monday.

The cholera outbreak has killed 15 people so far in Hammanskraal, Tshwane, where water issues have long been used as a campaigning tool by political parties to gain votes and control in the metro. But to date, clean and safe water supply to Hammanskraal residents has been elusive. We take you through a timeline of Hammanskraal’s issues, what key political parties and leaders committed to and what they have done.

A recent tender for pneumococcal vaccinations, which Biovac manufactures locally, was awarded to a foreign supplier to provide a cheaper vaccine that is not as effective as the locally made vaccine that newborns have been receiving to date.