Paediatrician puts spotlight on kidney conditions in SA children Dr Nokukhanya Ngubane-Mwandla says there is an acute shortage of paediatric nephrologists in SA 15 March 2021 Image: Supplied/Discovery Foundation
Dr Nokukhanya Ngubane-Mwandla decided she wanted to be a paediatrician in high school. She found a way to turn this dream into a reality, and the 34-year-old is now sub-specialising to help children with kidney conditions.
Ngubane-Mwandla was born in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, on Christmas Eve in 1985. Her mother is a teacher and her father a chief magistrate. After studying medicine at the University of Pretoria and qualifying as a doctor in 2009, she completed her studies at the Wits University and became a paediatrician.
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Students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa, are protesting over the financial exclusion of students with historic debts. The protests were met with police resistance on Wednesday that resulted in the death of one person.
One person killed in clashes between Wits students and cops
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Johannesburg - One person was shot dead on Wednesday morning during the continuing clashes between the police and Wits University students.
The deceased was allegedly coming from a nearby clinic in Braamfontein when he was shot at with rubber bullets that were meant for protesting Wits students.
He was allegedly not aware of what was happening when he was struck by the rubber bullets allegedly from the police on De Beer Drive. He died at the scene.
Wits students have been protesting since last week, demanding free education and that those that still owe the institution be allowed to register.
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The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) has sent investigators to Braamfontein, where a man was allegedly shot by the South African Police Service (SAPS) on Wednesday morning.
The man (believed to be in his thirties) apparently got caught up in the protest by University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) students and was shot as he came out of the Myclinic Jorissen Medical Centre in Braamfontein.
Dr Tebogo Sedibe, the doctor who treated the man at the clinic shortly before the fatal shooting, said the wounds were deep.
“I was treating another patient in my room when I heard the gunshots. My assistant came to ask me to come and help outside because one of our patients got shot. I went out to see and performed CPR, compression-only,” Sesibe told