Health & Social Welfare News

#WomensMonth

Tuned in to FM: Part 2

The future is female (to the power of AI)

Motherhood, music and the struggle to survive

The Lead Creative

The Lead Creative: Unpacking Cannes 2025 with Xolisa Dyeshana and Saf Sindhi

BizTrendsTV

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Faith Popcorn: The people's pushback trend

Subscribe & Follow

Advertise your job vacancies

Image credit: George Prentzas on Unsplash

Sassa launches mandatory biometric enrolment to combat grant fraud

Image credit:

Plastic microbeads: great in your face wash, bad in your food – how South Africa’s ban can work betterAnusha Rajkaran and Conrad Sparks

City Lodge Hotels an ally for autism lifelong learning

City Lodge Hotels an ally for autism lifelong learningCity Lodge Hotels

Image credit: Iwisa No. 1

Boost for community heroes: Iwisa No. 1 raises 2025 competition prize to R400,000

Image credit:

Plastic microbeads: great in your face wash, bad in your food – how South Africa’s ban can work better

By Anusha Rajkaran and Conrad Sparks 15 hours

City Lodge Hotels an ally for autism lifelong learning

City Lodge Hotels an ally for autism lifelong learning

3 days

More news

Image credit: Iwisa No. 1

Boost for community heroes: Iwisa No. 1 raises 2025 competition prize to R400,000

21 Aug 2025

Source: Reuters.

Inside SA’s multi-million rand plan to fill US funding void

Jesse Copelyn 15 Aug 2025

Image credit:

Sassa issues urgent warning against illegal social grant deductions

15 Aug 2025

The Western Cape Network on Disability has written to Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis urging the City of Cape Town to reconsider its decision to reduce Dial-a-Ride services. Archive photo: Will Yoder

Outcry over cuts to Cape Town’s Dial-a-Ride service

Mary-Anne Gontsana 13 Aug 2025

Image credit: on

How period poverty is derailing education in South Africa

13 Aug 2025

Image credit:

The science of starvation: this is what happens to your body when it’s deprived of food

Ola Anabtawi and Berta Valente 12 Aug 2025

Image supplied.

Matshepo Msibi named CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities South Africa

11 Aug 2025

Image credit: Aditi Gorasia on Dupe Photos

Gates Foundation leads charge into women’s health with unprecedented $2.5bn fund

8 Aug 2025

Source:

Repairs to crumbling clinic delayed

Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 4 Aug 2025

Nonkolelo Jijingubo’s husband died of TB in 2009 while working at Beatrix Gold Mine in the Free State. Despite lodging her claim in 2021, she is yet to receive payment. Photo supplied

Huge delays in payouts to miners with silicosis and TB

Sipokazi Fokazi 25 Jul 2025

Image supplied.

Operation Smile to perform 25 surgeries in 2 days

24 Jul 2025

was the master of ceremonies at the Songs for Freedom at St George Cathedral on Friday. She performed with her band, Feminine Force. Photos: Matthew Hirsch

St George’s Cathedral hosts sold-out fundraiser for Gaza

Matthew Hirsch 22 Jul 2025

Image supplied.

Toys R Us wants you to put down the device and play

22 Jul 2025

Image credit: Stijn Dijkstra on Pexels

Microplastics' escalating threat to SA health, environment

21 Jul 2025

Image credit: NIAID.

ARV residues in water pose no risk of HIV transmission

21 Jul 2025

Image supplied.

PNA aims to raise R2.5m for 2025 Funky Socks Day

18 Jul 2025

Image credit: Keira Burton on Pexels

Vodacom offers customers 4G upgrade for R67

18 Jul 2025

Image credit: Anna Shvets on Pexels

Unesco, ISTIC, and NRF sign MoU to drive sustainability

18 Jul 2025

Lesotho Palace of Justice in Maseru. The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority wants a case against it dismissed. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi / GroundUp

Lesotho dams authority fights back in “legally baseless” court case

Sechaba Mokhethi 16 Jul 2025

Image credit: .

From beading to leadership: how social models uplift SA communities

Dalit Shekel 15 Jul 2025

Image credit:

Sassa warns comply with review or lose your grant

14 Jul 2025

Image credit: Unsplash

#ActForSRHR digital campaign launches

11 Jul 2025

Image credit: Pexels

Why GBV in South Africa is an economic issue

10 Jul 2025

Image credit: Emma Simpson on Unsplash

Cultivating a culture of wellness

9 Jul 2025

Image supplied.

Calls for South Africans to register as stem cell donors

9 Jul 2025

Image credit:

Sassa clears up social grant suspension claims

8 Jul 2025

Image credit: Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

R1.2bn grant to aid disaster-affected provinces

8 Jul 2025

Let's do Biz