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Govt to build new health facilities: Motsoaledi
SABC News
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July 9, 2025
Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, says the government is building and upgrading a number of clinics and hospitals which include mental health facilities around the country to meet the growing demand for healthcare. Motsoaledi presented his...
South Africa’s Former Deputy President Dies
Zim Eye
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July 3, 2025
South Africa’s Former Deputy President Dies By A Correspondent Former Republic of South Africa Deputy President David Mabuza has died at the age of 64. Mabuza passed away in hospital on Wednesday after battling a long illness, his family confirmed...
ACPN, local pharma partner to enhance drug access
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 9, 2025
The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) has pledged to strengthen collaboration with Nigeria’s pharmaceutical manufacturers to drive increased access to essential medicines and enhance the economic viability of the nation’s...
South Africa's David Mabuza dies
Bulawayo 24 News
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July 3, 2025
News / National by Staff reporter 5 hrs ago | Views Former South African Deputy President David "DD" Mabuza has died. He was 64. Mabuza passed away at a hospital in Sandton, Johannesburg, earlier today, according to sources close to the family....
Pills & Profits: Can India's pharma sector handle Trump's planned 200% tariff dose?
The Economic Times
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July 9, 2025
India stands tall as a pharmaceutical powerhouse, supplying 20% of the world’s generic medicines and nearly 62% of global vaccines. Yet, this success now faces a storm: US President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs of up to 200% on pharmaceutical...
South Africa: Statement By President Cyril Ramaphosa On The Passing Of Former Deputy President David Mabuza
MENAFN
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July 3, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) PRETORIA, South Africa, July 3, 2025/APO Group/ -- I have learned with deep sadness of the passing of former Deputy President and former Premier of Mpumalanga, David Dabede Mabuza. Deputy President Mabuza...
South Africa's former deputy president Mabuza dies
Yahoo News
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa's former deputy president, David Mabuza, who helped bring current President Cyril Ramaphosa to power, has died, the presidency said on Thursday. Mabuza, 64, served as deputy president from 2018 to 2023 and...
South African red meat keeps rural economies alive and growing
Food For Mzansi
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July 3, 2025
South Africa’s red meat industry does more than feed the nation; it drives the farming economy. In this article, powered by the Red Meat Producers’ Organisation, agricultural economist Dr WA Lombard unpacks how the industry supports families,...
Nzimande to table report to Cabinet on impact of US withdrawal of health funding
Eye Witness News
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CAPE TOWN - Science and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande said that the country had learnt the hard way not to rely so heavily on global partners for its scientific needs. He said that he would soon table before Cabinet a report on the impact of...
How toxic leaders are undermining South Africa’s workforce
Cape Town ETC
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July 5, 2025
A troubling trend has emerged within South Africa’s corporate world: a growing number of leaders displaying toxic behaviours, with detrimental effects on employees’ mental health, Cape {town} Etc reports. According to a range of studies, the...
Medical aids slammed for procedural unfairness in new report
The Citizen (South Africa)
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July 7, 2025
An independent investigation panel asserts that medical aids have been poorly treating healthcare practitioners. Medical aid schemes have been told to change the way they treat registered practitioners. A report commissioned by Minister of Health...
South Africa reports new bird flu outbreak on poultry farms
Africanews
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July 3, 2025
South African authorities have confirmed new outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza strain on two poultry farms, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH). These are the country’s first reported cases since...
It’s Time to Rethink Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Introducing ‘Access-as-a-Service’
Next Billion
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July 9, 2025
As global health funding contracts — most notably with recent reductions in U.S. foreign aid — low- and middle-income countries are confronting a hard truth: Traditional models of delivering healthcare at scale are no longer financially or...
BRICS summit to discuss major world conflicts — South African president
TASS
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July 5, 2025
PRETORIA, July 5. /TASS/. Issues of geopolitics and major crises, including the situation in Ukraine, will be discussed at the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said ahead of his flight to Brazil. "I am...
ACPN National Chairman Hails Local Drug Makers, Warns Nigerian Government Against Merging Pharmacy Council
Daily Independent
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July 9, 2025
1 ABUJA: Nigeria’s pharmaceutical sector is defying odds with bold billion-dollar investments in local production and will not accept any attempt to dilute its professional standards through ill-advised regulatory mergers, the Association of...
No water, and no help for patients at Malvern clinic
eNCA
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JOHANNESBURG - While those on the ground suffer, the city of Johannesburg is adamant officials are doing their best to address deteriorating utilities. READ: No Water! Malvern Clinic left high and dry for 6 weeks Malvern Clinic has been without...
South Africa's spend R1. 1 trillion on gambling: is this a crisis, an economic boon or a social catastrophe?
The Post
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July 3, 2025
Advocate Lavan Gopaul|Published 1 hour ago 4min FOR the year ended March 2024, South Africans spent a staggering R1.1 trillion on gambling, a figure that dwarfs the budgets of key government departments like health and education. Lotteries,...
South African woman awarded R2. 2 million after rubber bullet injury
IOL
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A woman who was struck in her right eye with a rubber bullet and had to have it surgically removed will be compensated to the tune of R2.2 million by the Police Ministry. This comes after the High Court of South Africa at the North West Division,...
5 killed, 9 injured in road accident in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province
Xinhua News Agency
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JOHANNESBURG, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Five people were killed in a collision involving a car and a minibus taxi on Friday night along the N3 highway in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province, a provincial government official said on Saturday. Siboniso...
City of Johannesburg takes a stand for clean air
The Citizen (South Africa)
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July 9, 2025
On Saturday, 28 June, the City of Johannesburg, in collaboration with the pioneering Breathe Cities initiative, hosted the #PauseAndBreathe campaign across the city and with a flagship Hike for the Environment at Kloofendal Nature Reserve in...