Dr Ebrahim Variava is not scared to speak out against the ills of a broken public health system – something that got him suspended from his post as head of internal medicine at Tshepong Hospital in Klerksdorp in 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 crisis. Meet the doctor for whom patients are a.
This week's events are largely centred on South Africa’s Human Rights Day, with the theme ‘Consolidating and Sustaining Human Rights Culture into the Future’. Open to the public on 25 and 26 March, it offers an opportunity to hear experts from all walks of life comment on social issues, while t.
The stresses faced by healthcare works in the course of a normal day are nothing compared to what rolling blackouts have unleashed on them – from non-functioning life support machines to essential medications going bad and power surges causing expensive equipment to blow.