3+ day, 22+ 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…...

5+ day, 3+ 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…...

1+ week, 4+ 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   (318+ words) Athenkosi, 32, has been unemployed since 2023. He lives in Kariega with his mother, who is 56 and also unemployed. They both depend on the R370 each of them gets from the Social Relief of Distress grant. R740 a month is what the two of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (920+ words) Parents and crèche teachers have been warned to watch babies and young children closely as South Africa’s rotavirus season continues. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has reported a sharp increase in rotavirus cases in Pretoria, with one death…...

1+ week, 4+ 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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (139+ words) The retailer says the issue was picked up during its own quality checks, which led to further testing. That testing found Pluralibacter gergoviae, a type of bacteria sometimes found in wet manufacturing environments. Woolworths says the risk to healthy people…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (504+ words) Every trip to buy groceries is getting more expensive for Yolanda Rakobela. But simply passing those increases on to her customers is not an option. Yolanda started Bites & Blessings in 2024 to earn extra money after people kept complimenting her cooking....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (336+ words) Thembisa Skaap runs a full autism centre in Khayelitsha on nothing but school fees. No government money comes in. She built it after she could not find a place for her own grandson. Skaap searched across the Western Cape for…...

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…...