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Neurologist lashes RAF chief’s ‘pitiful and preposterous excuses’
Responding to Road Accident Fund (RAF) CEO Collins Letsoalo attack on medical professionals for approaching Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo over non-payment for specialist...
R50m medicines and food donation to Cuba interdicted pending review decision
AfriForum has successfully interdicted government's planned R50m medicines and food donation to Cuba, reports News24. In a written judgment to the affected parties, Judge...
Medical assessment to be required for surrogacy agreements – Gauteng High Court
A Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) judgment that sets new guidelines for courts to take into consideration before granting surrogacy agreements require that a medical...
Nobel laureate urges SA rejects WTO compromise on patent rights
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has joined a call from activists and researchers for President Cyril Ramaphosa to reject the proposed compromise that emerged...
US nurse on trial for reckless homicide over administration of deadly drug
Nursing bodies and legal experts have expressed concern over the trial of a US nurse on criminal charges of reckless homicide and felony abuse...
SIU sets sights on NGOs that benefited from Life Esidimeni tragedy
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is taking on the NGOs which scored financially from the transfer of mental healthcare patients in Gauteng during the...
KZN: Rape and murder of child highlights ‘tragic consequences’ of DNA test backlog
The backlog in DNA testing in cases of violent crimes has been flagged by a KZN judge after a rape accused, who was set...
Gauteng High Court asked to rule on Zambia lead-poisoning class action
Legal firm Mbuyisa Moleele and UK counterpart Leigh Day have filed further evidence in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) in an attempt to convince...
SIU to probe waste management corruption allegations at Limpopo Health
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is to investigate allegations of corruption and maladministration at the Department of Health in Limpopo, reports The Citizen.
This after...
UK hospital tells police patient ‘could not have been raped’ since attacker was transgender
A hospital told the police that a patient could not have been raped because her alleged attacker was trans, Britain’s House of Lords has...
RAF chief attacks medical experts over ‘unethical and potentially unlawful’ letter to Zondo
The approach by medical professionals to Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo over the failure of the Road Accident Fund to pay them for expert...
Landmark decision: High Court orders ‘reprehensible’ KZN Health to allow private training of nurses
The Pietermaritzburg High Court this week directed KwaZulu-Natal Health to authorise within 10 days a Hospital Association of SA (HASA) application for the training...
CCMA upholds ‘anti-vaxxer’ dismissal but awards compensation for WhatsApp firing
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) ruled the dismissal of an “anti-vaxxer” substantively fair but awarded compensation because the employer, a legal...
Uganda Medical Association wants spitting receptacles in public places and vehicles
Ugandans found spitting in public could spend a year in prison or pay a fine of about R12,450 if proposed changes to the Public...
Numsa takes Gautrain to CCMA over suspension of unvaccinated workers
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has taken Gautrain to the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) for suspending staff...
SIU blacklisting of PPE-looters not implemented by govt departments, municipalities
Attempts by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to have more than 500 companies blacklisted for PPE looting have not materialised because of a lack...
Correctional Services committee briefed on lack of psychiatric beds
MPs have been told that the non-availability of beds at South African mental health institutions was one of the contributing factors in the accumulation...
ConCourt reserves judgment on decriminalisation of child use of cannabis
That children are still prosecuted for the use and possession of cannabis, an act that has been decriminalised for adults, presents a dangerous narrative,...
Older Persons Amendment Bill now in Parliament – Full contents
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has introduced the Older Persons Amendment Bill to Parliament. The Bill will amend the Older Persons Act 2006 by inserting...
Texas sued to block investigations into parents over transgender surgery
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU has filed a lawsuit asking a Texas State Court to block officials from investigating parents who seek medically...
RAF revolt: Experts withdraw medico-legal opinions over non-payment
This article has been updated with comment from the RAF
Medical professionals contracted to provide expert opinions in Road Accident Fund (RAF) court hearings, have...
Ultimatum to SA universities is about ‘experimentation’ not ‘unscientific rejection’ of vaccinations
The Universities Alliance SA (Uasa), an activist organisation representing higher education students and staff, has threatened a a class-action lawsuit against tertiary institutions over...
Medical tenders on hold over ‘bizarre’ directive on ConCourt’s BEE ruling
State-employed doctors are battling without stethoscopes, blood glucose monitors and other equipment while the National Treasury quibbles about the implications of a Constitutional Court...
SANDF soldier pleads not guilty to murder after allegedly infecting partner with HIV
An SA National Defence Force soldier accused of intentionally infecting his partner with HIV has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, reports News24.
The man...
Moderna set for clash with WHO over COVID patent applications in SA
There’s a clash looming between Moderna, on the one side, and the South African government and the World Health Organization (WHO) on the other,...
40 years later: Court rules that Dr Neil Aggett was tortured and killed by police
More than 40 years after anti-apartheid activist Dr Neil Aggett’s death was declared a suicide while in detention, the Johannesburg High Court has found...
Rhodes claims victory in first battle against anti-vaxxers
Rhodes University will proceed with its COVID-19 mandatory vaccine requirement for all staff, students and visitors to its campus after an urgent Eastern Cape...
Philippines raises sex consent age from 12-years-old
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a Bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office...
Karim: It’s time to drop sanitising and masking outdoors
South Africa is ready to drop some restrictions, says the former head of the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on COVID-19, Prof Salim Abdool Karim.
This...
Gauteng Premier’s Office admits ‘possible corruption’ in Charlotte Maxeke repairs
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has denied it is probing possible irregularities and tender corruption linked to the repairs of Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic...
Govt seeks to overturn High Court ruling that lockdown tobacco ban was unconstitutional
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has heard that the tobacco ban during lockdown level three was justifiable under the Constitution. The court was...
Gauteng Health pays junior doctors’ salary arrears
After complaints from the SA Medical Association (SAMA) over the non-payment of medical interns working at state hospitals in Gauteng, the provincial Health Department...
Sackler family to pay $6bn for its role in OxyContin opioid crisis
The wealthy Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, is to pay $6bn for its role in America’s opioid epidemic under a new deal. A...
University of California loses second gene-editing patent case
A second attempt by the University of California (UC) Berkeley to obtain lucrative patent rights to the gene-editing technology CRISPR were stymied again recently...
Radiological Society challenges legality of Life Healthcare expansion
Private hospital group Life Healthcare’s plans to expand into the SA imaging market have run into opposition from the country’s key industry association for...
Pretoria High Court grants parental rights in lesbian insemination case
A Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has declared section 40 of the Children’s Act unconstitutional, ruling that a lesbian, whose artificially fertilised egg cells were...
Uganda to impose fines or imprisonment for COVID-19 vaccine refusals
Uganda will impose the equivalent of up to R17,400 fine or six months jail on people who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19, in...
Senegal demonstrators demand harsher laws against same-sex relations
Thousands of people in Dakar last week attended a rally demanding harsher laws to clamp down on same sex relations, reports Radio France International....
Pretoria diagnostic radiologists have assets seized over R52m tax debt
Assets belonging to a practice of two Pretoria diagnostic radiologists have been attached by the Sheriff of the High Court over outstanding returns and...
Cape Town teacher’s urgent application on vaccination struck with costs
A teacher has lost her High Court bid to stop the independent school network from implementing a mandatory COVID vaccination policy. Kaylee Sage de...