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New research shows a steep decline in adolescent pregnancy rates across all nine provinces from 2021 to 2025, reversing course from previous years. It’s good news, even if it’s…
Experts say South Africa’s contradictory approach to drugs — treating addiction as both a disease and a crime — is fuelling a worsening crisis in places like Westbury, where…
At 33, the retired Constitutional Court justice thought he had, maybe, seven years left. His story traces the arc from certain death because of Aids to a chronic, manageable…
A review of 37 studies found that when people stop taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, the weight comes back
After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities are settling in
For some teenagers, emotional pain manifests as deliberately cutting, burning, hitting, biting, scratching or picking at their skin
We talked to experts in obesity, tobacco, artificial intelligence, HIV, TB and the NHI to find out what we can expect — and what we can’t — this year
The judgment complements a November ruling meant to stop groups such as Operation Dudula from blocking foreign nationals from entering government hospitals and clinics and…
While groups like Operation Dudula flood the zone with fear, confusion and misinformation around healthcare access for foreign nationals, that space has been easy to muddy,…
As climate change intensifies, experts say our health and healthcare systems are going to suffer. But mental health often takes a back seat
Tanya Pampalone pays tribute to a writer and a friend, Tiisetso Makube, who died this week.
What’s being read around the M&G newsroom? Here are some things we like. A lot.
Growing inequality has left the capitalist dream on its last gasp. And the sooner we all stop fantasising about the American Dream, the better.
The Malibu Model has reached Cape Town. And for those who want to get sober, and have the kind of cash that gets you the best, it’s a beautiful thing.
It’s a genre that’s easy to get hooked on – that’s if you’re into misery, redemption and excruciating honesty.
The first instalment of our drug edition looks at books that are easy to get hooked on – if you’re into misery, redemption and excruciating honesty.
Tanya Pampalone’s daughter learnt how to pray at school but later decided she wasn’t a Christian, or anything else.
A trip to the Jock Safari Lodge in the Kruger National Park takes us back to the days of ox wagons and wild game.
The Grugq, who is pale, balding, boyishly pudgy and was dressed in a black golf shirt and a zip-up black jersey, looked like he had just woken up.
The international celebrity hotel is cozying up to locals with winter specials and some of the best food in Cape Town. Tanya Pampalone fattens up.
