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Education & Training

South Africa's healthcare gets a boost as construction begins on new medical school

Katja Hamilton 5 Jun 2025

Patients' lives at risk as doctors refuse to work extra overtime without pay

Healthcare

Patients' lives at risk as doctors refuse to work extra overtime without pay

Yoliswa Sobuwa 28 Jan 2025

Healthcare

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

Zano Kunene 5 Apr 2024

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

President Cyril Ramaphosa has promised that long waits at state health facilities will be a thing of the past. Photo: RNews

NHI

President promises revised NHI plan

21 Jun 2019

The Master of Science in Global Health Delivery Class of 2018. Photo by Jean Christophe Kitoko for UGHE

Healthcare

Rwanda university sets out to teach doctors medicine and management

Agnes Binagwaho 6 Feb 2019

Wavebreak Media

Public Health

New medical school slated for Eastern Cape

Joan van Dyk 6 Oct 2017

New graduates, rural areas likely to pay the price for austerity measures

Public Health

New graduates, rural areas likely to pay the price for austerity measures

Joan van Dyk 17 Jan 2017

HASA pleads case for private medical schools

Healthcare

HASA pleads case for private medical schools

21 Sep 2016

Junior docs get 26-hour shift

Public Health

Junior docs get 26-hour shift

18 Aug 2016

Cancer: Africa's silent killer

Medical Aid

Cancer: Africa's silent killer

14 Apr 2016

National plan needed to address critical doctor shortages

Public Health

National plan needed to address critical doctor shortages

25 Sep 2015

Teens turn to text messages for AIDS advice in Zambia

Mobile

Teens turn to text messages for AIDS advice in Zambia

3 Dec 2014

Public private collaboration to train Maties med students

Hospital Groups

Public private collaboration to train Maties med students

18 Nov 2014

SA faces uphill battle to retain doctors, nurses

Administration

SA faces uphill battle to retain doctors, nurses

28 Feb 2014

Military

Poor state of military health service

24 Jun 2013

Boomtown makes States-side awards shortlist

Advertising

Boomtown makes States-side awards shortlist

Issued by Boomtown 17 Apr 2013

Higher Education

Hunger strike for SA students in Cuba

22 Feb 2013

Pharmaceuticals

Self-medication improves health, cuts medical costs

29 Jan 2013

Public Health

Medical association sends doctors to Limpopo hospital

9 Jan 2013

Boomtown wins silver in the CLIO Healthcare awards

Direct Marketing

Boomtown wins silver in the CLIO Healthcare awards

Issued by Boomtown 15 Nov 2012

Hospital Groups

Bring it on, say doctors

3 Jul 2012

Too few doctors in training

Public Health

Too few doctors in training

Nivashni Nair and Mhlaba Memela 14 Feb 2012

Medical Aid

NHI tax on hold for now

23 Sep 2011

Healthcare

World Medical Association calls for increased numbers of doctors to be trained

Issued by Magda Naude 22 Jan 2008

Digital

Ethiopian digital doctors

Sisay Abebe 13 Mar 2007