How do indigenous healers benefit?
There is worldwide commercialisation of indigenous knowledge holders often do not benefit from this. Government recently passed legislation to address …
In the community
How do the poor survive?
Through conducting surveys in four townships Mandla Seleoane assesses the poor’s means of survival and speculates on whether certain kinds …
HIV women’s health neglected
At an HIV/AIDS conference earlier this year it became clear that although women are the major group living with HIV/AIDS …
HIV/AIDS and life assurance
By Mark Heywood
HIV/AIDS: A mental health perspective
Numerous studies exist in every area of life on HIV/AIDS. One neglected area however is its psychological and mental health …
Healing our hospitals
IMSSA
Heroes’ Journey: Ex-combatants and life-changing experience
Liberation movements’ former combatants are a neglected group. Lephophoto Mashike investigates their plight, their psychological state and their survival strategies. …
He is my hero: Men and fatherhood in South Africa
In South Africa we too readily accept that fathers will be absent from their children’s lives. Linda Richter sows how …
Gun Free Zones: Can we stem the flow of guns?
Gun deaths and injuries are the cause of terrible trauma for the people of South Africa. Adele Kirsten talks about …
Government, Profit and Inequality: Linking Hands in the Water Sector
Sagie Narsiah believes that the South African state’s neo-liberal policies have violated citizens’ equality and socio-economic constitutional rights. He explains …