Monday, 8 August 2022
Tebadi Mmotla was born and raised in Limpopo. She is a Wits graduate and reports on a range of topics, including higher education, mining and health.
Professionals, facilities and knowledge are lacking when it comes to autism, resulting in children such as Sboniso Hlophe missing schooling for much of their formative years.
Workers’ Day events provided opportunities for election campaigning, as well as a chance for some to capitalise on the crowds and make some much-needed money.
Numsa’s Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party wants land, resources and wealth in the hands of the people. Could it fill the left-wing gap in South Africa’s political spectrum?
Battling slow and inadequate government care, parents of children with disabilities both go it alone and set up organisations to help their offspring live full lives.
More than 2 000 people marched to Durban City Hall on Human Rights Day in a bid to get the government in KwaZulu-Natal to respond to the transgressions taking place in the province.
The Life Esidimeni outrage triggered changes to operating licence requirements for mental health NGOs. But many, like Gordonia, lack the funding to comply.
The number of psychiatrists in the public healthcare system is completely inadequate for the needs of the mentally ill, with professionals and patients suffering as a result.
The self-effacing struggle stalwart talks about finally receiving the degree he was denied during apartheid, and working for and then breaking with the ANC and SACP.
A lack of funding is preventing migrant medical students from finding community service internships.
As doctors warn about the dangers of interrupted treatment in the wake of the crisis caused by the ARV shortage, the government claims that stock is almost replenished.
National Health Insurance is offered as the solution to a failing public healthcare system, but experts warn that the state currently lacks the capacity to make it work.
Despite the law enshrining access to safe abortions, women are constantly turned away from clinics, stigmatised or interrogated about their choices – and left to raise children they don’t want.
Six lives were lost when workers on their way to a mine were attacked in Limpopo for being ‘outsiders’. The attack has left deep scars.
Masingita Masunga sat down with New Frame to talk about summiting Africa’s tallest mountain, her activism and living with cerebral palsy.