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PwC launches forensic investigation into IDT’s troubling R836-million oxygen plants project

SCORPIO UPDATE

PwC launches forensic investigation into IDT’s troubling R836-million oxygen plants project

By Pieter-Louis Myburgh

Health Director-General, IDT CEO paved way for dodgy R836m oxygen plant contracts

SCORPIO & AMABHUNGANE

Health Director-General, IDT CEO paved way for dodgy R836m oxygen plant contracts

By Pieter-Louis Myburgh (Daily Maverick) and Azarrah Karrim (amaBhungane)

Urgent legal battle: Activists demand action for 3,000 Gauteng cancer patients awaiting treatment

DEADLY DELAYS

Urgent legal battle: Activists demand action for 3,000 Gauteng cancer patients awaiting treatment

By Michelle Banda

How pharmacist staffing gaps fuel medicine stockouts and superbugs

SPOTLIGHT

How pharmacist staffing gaps fuel medicine stockouts and superbugs

By Chris Bateman for Spotlight

Watch - Inside “ghost” company’s R428m oxygen plants deal

VIDEO

Watch - Inside “ghost” company’s R428m oxygen plants deal

By Pieter-Louis Myburgh (Daily Maverick) and Azarrah Karrim (amaBhungane)

Alleged tender fraud, shock ‘death’ of contractor cloud R836m hospital oxygen plants project

SCORPIO & AMABHUNGANE

Alleged tender fraud, shock ‘death’ of contractor cloud R836m hospital oxygen plants project

By Pieter-Louis Myburgh (Daily Maverick) and Azarrah Karrim (amaBhungane)

Public Works minister gives Independent Development Trust until Friday to explain oxygen plant tender

AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Public Works minister gives Independent Development Trust until Friday to explain oxygen plant tender

By Suné Payne

Tragic deaths of six Soweto children linked to lethal organophosphate poisoning - investigation ongoing

TOXIC TRAGEDY

Tragic deaths of six Soweto children linked to lethal organophosphate poisoning - investigation ongoing

By Lerato Mutsila

'Ghost company' bags R428m oxygen plants tender for state hospitals

SCORPIO

'Ghost company' bags R428m oxygen plants tender for state hospitals

By Pieter-Louis Myburgh

Race against time to find banned insecticides possibly linked to food poisoning deaths of 11 Soweto children

PROHIBITED PESTICIDES

Race against time to find banned insecticides possibly linked to food poisoning deaths of 11 Soweto children

By Lerato Mutsila and Estelle Ellis

Banned insecticide found in spazas as inspectors home in on what killed 6 kids

SOWETO TRAGEDY

Banned insecticide found in spazas as inspectors home in on what killed 6 kids

By Lerato Mutsila

Alarming rise in HIV among drug users as government fails to implement policy

GROUNDUP

Alarming rise in HIV among drug users as government fails to implement policy

By Jesse Copelyn

Family physicians poised for bigger role in SA public healthcare after years on the sidelines

SPOTLIGHT

Family physicians poised for bigger role in SA public healthcare after years on the sidelines

By Chris Bateman for Spotlight

Company scores ‘irregular’ R122m health department contract

AMABHUNGANE

Company scores ‘irregular’ R122m health department contract

By Azarrah Karrim

NHI Act offers no answer to high medicine prices — Covid-19 holds lessons for health equity

SPOTLIGHT OP-ED

NHI Act offers no answer to high medicine prices — Covid-19 holds lessons for health equity

By Fatima Hassan

Consensus, common purpose and unified commitment to SA healthcare reform urgently needed

MEDICAL INTERVENTION OP-ED

Consensus, common purpose and unified commitment to SA healthcare reform urgently needed

By Brian Currin, Mark Heywood, Tracey Naledi, Krish Vallabhjee and Atiya Mosam

Providing transformative surgeries to children whom the system has failed

OPERATION SMILE OP-ED

Providing transformative surgeries to children whom the system has failed

By Chris Bateman

SIU saves health departments R3bn in medico-legal claims, but Hawks yet to act

AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY

SIU saves health departments R3bn in medico-legal claims, but Hawks yet to act

By Michelle Banda

If emulsifiers are potentially harmful, why are they in most of our food? Part Two

ADDITIVES

If emulsifiers are potentially harmful, why are they in most of our food? Part Two

By Adèle Sulcas

If emulsifiers are potentially harmful, why are they in most of our food? Part One

ADDITIVES

If emulsifiers are potentially harmful, why are they in most of our food? Part One

By Adèle Sulcas

As the mpox virus sweeps through Africa, here’s what SA is doing to curb the outbreak

HEALTH EMERGENCY

As the mpox virus sweeps through Africa, here’s what SA is doing to curb the outbreak

By Lerato Mutsila