Cancelled surgeries, ambulances barred from hospitals, stalled medication dispensing are among the critical services affected by the health workers’ strike.
Day two of the interdicted Nehawu strike continued to rumble and burn on Tuesday, leaving dead bodies, exhausted workers and hungry and untreated patients in its wake.
The body of a young Fort Hare University student, who was killed while crossing the busy N2 road near his home in Maqanyeni in Sibangweni outside Mthatha last year, has become the subject of a bitter tug-of-war between the victim’s mother and her former in-laws. The feud over who should bury the victim has now reached the courts, after the victim’s mother instituted legal proceedings against her former father-in-law and the child’s grandfather.
Health activist and Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor Ayabonga Nduzmo-Tyelela is a beacon of light who has touched many lives through sharing her experience of how she beat cancer.
The founder of Walter Sisulu University's medical school Professor Nolwandle Marina Xaba-Mokoena has been honoured by graduates of the faculty she helped launch nearly 40 years ago.