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Oscar Mdluli, 38, is pleading with the Mpumalanga Health Department (MHD) to assist him to recover his eyesight as he urgently needed to cut away cataracts from his eyes. According to Mdluli, he was diagnosed with the severe cataracts five years ago and since then he had been to Mapulaneng Hospital on many occasions. But,…
KWA-MHLANGA – Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Collen Sedibe, came gun blazing after being alerted of patients and pregnant women sharing beds amid the Covid-19 pandemic in KwaMhlanga hospital. “It’s a disgrace that the Covid-19 regulations are not followed at KwaMhlanga hospital and it’s putting lives of our people in danger,” Sedibe lashed out. “It’s…
MBOMBELA – Mpumalanga MEC for Health, Sasekani Manzini, welcomed the 13 Cuban Doctors deployed to the province on 19 May at Rob Ferreira Hospital Resource Centre in Mbombela. Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has said that the Cuban medical brigade has come at the South African government’s request; “the Cuban doctors are coming at our…
EMALAHLENI– Empumelelweni residents in eMalahleni cried that they needed more than water tanks supplied by government in their communities because of water scarcity. Empumelelweni was one of the beneficiaries of 183 water tanks supplied by the Department of Water and Sanitation to different municipalities in Mpumalanga. The water tanks were part of the interventions by…
DELMAS – Health MEC Sasekani Manzini joined the provincial health practitioners who are undertaking Covid-19 screening and testing in Delmas on Thursday. MEC Manzini was accompanied by her host, the Mayor of Victor Khanye Local Municipality (VKLM), Vusi Buda, the VKLM Speaker, Robert Segone, MMC for Health and Social Services, Councillor Dorcas Yeko on a…
NKANGALA – More than 3000 people living in the Highveld area are expected to die as a result of increased sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions from coal-fired power plants. From 1 April coal-fired power plants like Eskom and SASOL and other industrial sources of SO2 have had to comply with new emission standards twice as weak…
SOUTH AFRICA – By 6 May more than 166 128 individuals had signed a petition to keep learners out of school during the peak of the covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. The Director-General of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) Mathanzima Mweli’s comments sparked an uproar during a virtual meeting broadcast on 29 April when…
SOUTH AFRICA – The war against the cigarette ban has intensified after the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), Nkosana Dlamini-Zuma, said the ban is continuing under level 4. This was after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on 23 April that cigarette sales would resume under lockdown level 4, and on 29 April during…
SOUTH AFRICA- The South African government owes its citizens an explanation for deploying 217 medical doctors without any prior address or revelation of key details. Many questions are on the lips of millions of South Africans who are curious as to why the government deployed the medical doctors from Cuba upon their arrival on South…
SOUTH AFRICA – The recent lifting of the cigarettes ban by President Cyril Ramaphosa and the National Command Council for COVID-19 has caused friction amongst South African citizens. During the COVID-19 nation address on 23 April, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the re-opening of the economy with the lifting of some regulations including the reinstatement of…
