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Education & Training

Workshops train Africa’s aspiring health professionals

7 Jul 2025

Higher Education

St. George's University, Legae Academy join forces to boost medical training in Botswana

27 Jun 2025

NWU strengthens global ties and gathers insight ahead of new medical school launch

Higher Education

NWU strengthens global ties and gathers insight ahead of new medical school launch

Issued by North-West University (NWU) 19 Jun 2025

Medical students open SA's first organ donor support unit at Tygerberg Hospital

Public Health

Medical students open SA's first organ donor support unit at Tygerberg Hospital

12 Jun 2025

Source: Supplied. Twenty-seven students from Gaza bid farewell to South Africa on the steps at UCT. They left Gaza after their universities were destroyed during the war, and studied at UCT and Wits.

Public Health

From ruins to resilience: Gazan medical students triumph against adversity in SA

16 May 2025

Source: UCT. Simamkele Bongo

Medical Research

Meet the neuroscience star who’s using tech to decode the brain

Maya Skillen 21 Apr 2025

Ultra-sound; ‘underused, under-trained,’ in SA

Medtech

Ultra-sound; ‘underused, under-trained,’ in SA

Issued by Zebra Medical 23 Jan 2025

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Healthcare

4 ways Medic East Africa is turning the tide on regional health challenges

12 Jul 2024

Source: Supplied. Lee Callakoppen, Bonitas Medical Fund; Themba Hadebe, Bonitas Medical Fund; Imtiaz Sooliman, Gift of The Givers; Priya Soma Pillay, University of Pretoria and Hope Mpshe of Kalafong Hospital.

Healthcare

Bonitas, Gift of the Givers restore reliable water to Kalafong Hospital

25 Jun 2024

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

Mercy Ships launches surgical missions in Madagascar

21 May 2024

Source: Supplied. The Tri for Life team are Jonty Wright, Gerhard Nieuwoudt, Alexander Van Wyk, and Henri Van Der Westhuizen.

Healthcare

Students’ ‘Life Pod’ project can save up to 100 lives per year

23 Apr 2024

Healthcare

SA doctors make up to 40 times more than those in Kenya and Nigeria

Zano Kunene 5 Apr 2024

Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa - why this is wrong

Research

Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa - why this is wrong

Susan Goldstein, Mark Tomlinson, Rachel Wynberg and Tanya Doherty 5 Mar 2024

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Bursaries, Scholarships & Finance

Institutions submit registration data to NSFAS

5 Mar 2024

Source: Supplied. Situated in Clamhall in Parow, this 13-bedroom (all ensuite) R5.2m home with significant income-generating potential, includes two dining areas, fitted kitchen, office, patio, swimming pool, braai area and snooker room.

Residential Property

Cape Town’s Bellville and Parow show substantial house price growth

4 Mar 2024

Sorbet-Prenuer citizen comes full circle: once employed as a therapist, now Sorbet franchise owner

FMCG

Sorbet-Prenuer citizen comes full circle: once employed as a therapist, now Sorbet franchise owner

Issued by OnPoint PR 11 Aug 2023

Hospital Groups

Limpopo Central Hospital scheduled for grand opening in 2026

19 Jul 2023

Medtech

Stellenbosch medical students use tech to turn the tide on organ donor shortage

12 Jul 2023

Public Health

OHSC welcomes appointment of new health ombud

5 Jun 2023

Digital relationships could help healthcare professionals and improve personalised patient care

Medtech

Digital relationships could help healthcare professionals and improve personalised patient care

Issued by Stone 31 Mar 2023

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Education & Training

Health dept concludes placement of medical interns

2 Nov 2022

Healthcare

Caring for our young doctors is good medicine

Dr Brenda Kubheka 8 Jul 2022

Source: REUTERS. Vuhlari Mtonga, one of the South African medical students who fled Ukraine, is embraced by her sister, Mikateko Mtonga, after arriving at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg in March 2022.

Trends

SA medical students flee Ukraine - not too long ago it was Cuba, remember?

Collette Marais 1 Jun 2022

Source: Supplied. Mohamed Suleman.

Education & Training

UKZN medical student appointed as editor of international journal

31 Jan 2022

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Noncommunicable diseases

Africa's first public health state-of-the-art diabetes centre opens

15 Nov 2021

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Management & Leadership

Working from home made women academics feel worse than ever about juggling roles

Cyrill Walters and Armand Bam 14 Oct 2021

Catherine Estrampes, president and CEO, GE Healthcare Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA).

Medtech

#WomensMonth: It'll take more than 60 years to bridge the gender gap

Catherine Estrampes 3 Aug 2021

South African healthcare workers are at high risk of contracting hepatitis B

Medical Research

South African healthcare workers are at high risk of contracting hepatitis B

13 Apr 2021

Plans for the NWU Medical School on track

Higher Education

Plans for the NWU Medical School on track

Issued by North-West University (NWU) 8 Apr 2021

Tech and Covid: Streamlining the vaccination process through technology

Technology

Tech and Covid: Streamlining the vaccination process through technology

Jessie Taylor, Issued by Topco Media 1 Apr 2021

Health minister, Zweli Mkhize

Covid-19

Covid-19 online vaccination registration opens to healthcare workers

3 Feb 2021

UCT body donor programme continues despite ongoing pandemic

Medical Research

UCT body donor programme continues despite ongoing pandemic

30 Dec 2020

Construction starts on Foster + Partners-designed Cairo hospital

Architecture & Design

Construction starts on Foster + Partners-designed Cairo hospital

15 Sep 2020

Over 60% of students to return to campus

Higher Education

Over 60% of students to return to campus

27 Aug 2020

The Thusong Multipurpose Center in Khayelitsha which will serve as a Covid-19 site in Cape Town, South Africa. Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

Students play an integral role in healthcare delivery: findings from South Africa

Ian Couper & Jana Müller 9 Jul 2020

Stadium provides innovative learning space for Irish medical students

Covid-19

Stadium provides innovative learning space for Irish medical students

1 Jul 2020

Nzimande to check university state of readiness

Higher Education

Nzimande to check university state of readiness

Onalenna Mhlongo 4 Jun 2020

Covid-19

Covid-19 shows the world needs physicians who can look beyond medical charts

Abebe Bekele & Agnes Binagwaho 4 Jun 2020

#YouthMonth: Data prices and education during Covid-19

Data & Analytics

#YouthMonth: Data prices and education during Covid-19

Tasia Matlala 1 Jun 2020

Final year students to return to varsity under Level 3, free data

Higher Education

Final year students to return to varsity under Level 3, free data

25 May 2020

The great migration into virtualisation

Digital

The great migration into virtualisation

Mic Mann, Issued by Mann Made 22 Apr 2020