Professor Soraya Seedat is a distinguished professor and head of Stellenbosch University’s psychiatry department. She has penned several hundred peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on psychiatric disorders, with a focus on PTSD and anxiety, particularly among children and in resour.
The Umthombo Youth Development Foundation provides bursaries and mentorship to health science students from poor, rural backgrounds. Despite humble beginnings, these students are achieving exceptionally high pass rates. Here’s why.
Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela, CEO of Sahpra, chats to Bhekisisa about how she weathered the Covid storm and why her colleagues were unsurprised by her resolve.
"There are things you really don’t have control over, and you’ve just got to do the best you can with the resources that you have, whatever those resources might be," says Dr Angela Hartwig.