9 October 2026 Every October, South Africa marks Mental Health Awareness Month, with World Mental Health Day falling on 10 October. It is a day meant to prompt reflection, not just observance: how far has the country come in making mental healthcare available to everyone who needs it, and how far is there still to…
Londiwe Buthelezi 7 October 2026 It began as a question set to music: Are you thinking with your brain or your hormones? On 17 September, that question filled a room at StellCare in Stellenbosch, and by the end of the week it had grown into something far more practical. Singer-songwriter, nurse and Stellenbosch University MNurs…
Londiwe Buthelezi 24 September 2026 This Heritage Day, a quiet but consequential conversation is happening in consulting rooms and rondavels across South Africa. It is a conversation about who gets to define illness, and who gets to heal it. The numbers explain why this conversation cannot wait. South Africa carries one of the highest documented…
Nonhlanhla doesn’t remember the crash itself. She remembers the sound before it, and the silence after. She was driving her mother’s Polo home from a night shift on the N3 outside Pietermaritzburg when a bakkie crossed the median. She woke up in Grey’s Hospital with a fractured wrist and two cracked ribs, grateful, everyone told…
Thembelihle Zwane 21 September 2026 NgoSepthemba 21, njalo ngonyaka, umhlaba ugubha uSuku Lomhlaba Lwe-Alzheimer’s. Kodwa endaweni eziningi zaseNingizimu Afrika, lolu suku alubi nenjabulo nemicimbi – luvela njengelinye ihora nje kolunye usuku lokunakekela: ukugeza, ukuphakela, ukuphindaphinda amagama, ukulinda ukuthi uthando lubuye lubonakale emehlweni omuntu othandekayo osekungathi akasekho. Ngokusho kombiko iWorld Alzheimer Report, cishe abantu abangu-187 000…
Thabisile Gumede 4 September 2026 On 30 August, ten women gathered on a sunlit veranda at the Mazisi Kunene Museum in Durban, mats rolled out beside stacks of books, for an experiment Zenzele Book Festival founder Andiswa Mpulo had been carrying in her heart for years: what happens when we treat reading as seriously as…
Thabisile Gumede 17 July 2026 Journalists and editors gathered at the SABC KZN Regional offices on Wednesday, 15 July 2026, for a mental resilience and wellness training session hosted by the Wellness and Safety Committee of the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF). The workshop, run in two separate sessions for journalists and for editors,…
Londiwe Buthelezi 8 July 2026 Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has appointed a team of 16 experts to review departmental HR policies dating back to 1994, following the release of a joint Health Ombud investigation into the deaths of six health professionals at KwaZulu-Natal public hospitals. The probe examined the deaths of intern doctor Alulutho Mazwi…
Thembelihle Zwane 8 July 2026 Njengoba iNingizimu Afrika igubha iNyanga Yokuqwashiswa Ngokugula Kwengqondo kule nyanga kaNtulikazi, inombolo yezomnotho ephawula kabi iphoqa abaqashi, abenzi bezinqubomgomo kanye nabahlinzeki bezempilo ukuthi babhekane nombuzo abebeqhelile ukuwugwema: yikuphi ngempela okudingekayo ukuze izwe lishiye ukugula kwengqondo kungelashwa? Inombolo esetshenziswa kakhulu ngu-R218 billion, okuyisilinganiso somonakalo waminyaka yonke kumnotho waseNingizimu Afrika ovela ekungabhekwaneni…
Thembelihle Zwane 26 June 2026 Mhla zingama-26 kuJuni 2026, iNingizimu Afrika ihlanganyela nomhlaba wonke ekugubheni Usuku Lwamazwe Ngamazwe Lokulwa Nokusetshenziswa Kabi Kwezidakamizwa. Isihloko salonyaka ka-2026 sithi: “Ukunika Imiphakathi Amandla: Ukwakha Ukuzinikela Ekuvikeleni Okungapheli (Empowering Communities: Building Resilience for Sustainable Prevention). Lolu suku lufika ngesikhathi lapho imibiko yamuva yango-2026 evela ku-Central Drug Authority (CDA) ikhombisa ukuthi…
