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Scientists at the University of Pretoria have found that fresh vegetables are being contaminated by disease-causing bacteria through irrigation from polluted rivers and boreholes. Photos: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

Food, Water & Energy Security

South Africa’s polluted rivers pose food contamination risk

Steve Kretzmann 26 May 2025

Laurent Muschel, HERA Director General, and Jean Kaseya, Africa CDC Director General, stand near mpox vaccines as first batches arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 September 2024. Reuters/Justin Makangara/File Photo

Health & Social Welfare

Africa's top health official presses US to resume health aid

Jennifer Rigby 6 Feb 2025

Image source: Nyau Mimi from

Food, Water & Energy Security

City of Tshwane declares Hammanskraal water safe for consumption

9 Jan 2025

Unlocking the blueprint for South Africa's infrastructure development

Technology

Unlocking the blueprint for South Africa's infrastructure development

Sabine Dall'Omo 30 Sep 2024

Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Public Health

Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected – it could now turn into the next global pandemic

21 Aug 2024

Citizens team up with scientists to find solutions to SA’s deteriorating water quality

Food, Water & Energy Security

Citizens team up with scientists to find solutions to SA’s deteriorating water quality

Issued by JNPR 23 Jul 2024

How environmental toxins and pollution affect our health, by Medshield

Medical Research

How environmental toxins and pollution affect our health, by Medshield

Issued by Stone 25 Jun 2024

Doctors and medical practitioners under the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) participate in a demonstration to demand payment of their salary arrears and the immediate hiring of trainee doctors, among other grievances, in Nairobi, Kenya, 16 April 2024. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo

Public Health

Kenyan government doctors sign agreement to end strike

George Obulutsa 9 May 2024

SU's Professor Tulio de Oliveira selected for Time100 Health 2024

Education & Training

SU's Professor Tulio de Oliveira selected for Time100 Health 2024

Issued by Stellenbosch University 6 May 2024

Healthcare

Gavi and Unicef welcome approval of new oral cholera vaccine

23 Apr 2024

A view shows a part of Sidi El Barrak dam at low water levels, in Nafza, west of the capital Tunis, Tunisia, 7 January 2023. Reuters/Jihed Abidellaoui

Climate Change

Climate change is the biggest human health risk, says Africa's disease boss

30 Nov 2023

Water crisis in South Africa: Are we making progress?

Accounting & Auditing

Water crisis in South Africa: Are we making progress?

Issued by SAICA 6 Nov 2023

The Medium Term Budget Policy Statement and the water crisis

Accounting & Auditing

The Medium Term Budget Policy Statement and the water crisis

Issued by SAICA 1 Nov 2023

Source: City of Hope.

Healthcare

Breakthroughs in medicine: top virologist on the two most important developments for Africa

Oyewale Tomori 2 Nov 2023

Surprising factors spur growth in bottled water

Research

Surprising factors spur growth in bottled water

Issued by BMi Research 18 Sep 2023

Healthcare

From fatal allergies to heart attacks and cholera - the devastating health effects of global warming in Africa

Lenore Manderson 7 Sep 2023

WaterCan lays criminal complaint against CoJ for ongoing sewage pollution

Infrastructure & Utilities

WaterCan lays criminal complaint against CoJ for ongoing sewage pollution

26 Jul 2023

Collen Mashawana Foundation donate borehole to Hammanskraal Community on Mandela Day

NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

Collen Mashawana Foundation donate borehole to Hammanskraal Community on Mandela Day

Issued by Afribiz Media 20 Jul 2023

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Circular Economy & Waste Management

Several initiatives to address pollution of rivers

7 Jul 2023

Tourism & Travel

Cholera outbreak - a potential threat to tourism?

Katja Hamilton 6 Jul 2023

Public Health

Cholera outbreak claims four lives in Free State, death toll reaches 47

6 Jul 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

South Africa's cholera death toll reaches 43

28 Jun 2023

Source: Reuters.

Covid-19

Covid-19 vaccine scheme for poorest has $2.6bn left to spend as pandemic recedes

Jennifer Rigby 26 Jun 2023

SA's drinking water quality has dropped because of defective infrastructure, neglect

Infrastructure & Utilities

SA's drinking water quality has dropped because of defective infrastructure, neglect

Anja du Plessis 14 Jun 2023

Healthcare

Cholera death toll climbs to 32

9 Jun 2023

Source: Twitter/@SAgovnews

Public Health

Ramaphosa schedules visit to Hammanskraal in response to cholera outbreak

8 Jun 2023

Battered and bruised, the management of global healthcare systems is reeling

Medtech

Battered and bruised, the management of global healthcare systems is reeling

Issued by Bullion PR & Communication 7 Jun 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

South Africans blame City of Tshwane as cholera cases rise

Catherine Schenck 23 May 2023

Source: Reuters.

Infectious Diseases

WHO says risk 'moderate' after laboratory in Sudan seized by fighters

2 May 2023

Public Health

African leaders pledge to drive routine immunisation and polio eradication

20 Mar 2023

Public Health

Green light for Cape Health Technology Park

28 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

South Africa reports first death due to cholera as cases rise to five

24 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Malawi cholera death toll crosses 1,300: health official

Bhargav Acharya 14 Feb 2023

Public Health

South Africa records two imported cholera cases

Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo 6 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Cholera death toll passes 1,000 in Malawi as outbreak spreads

Frank Phiri 25 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Spread of cholera threatens eastern Congo camps of displaced persons

9 Dec 2022

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

South Africa's Biovac in new oral cholera vaccine deal

Wendell Roelf 25 Nov 2022

Source: Reuters.

Emergency Medicine

Malawi gets 2.9 million cholera vaccine doses as outbreak spreads

8 Nov 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

WHO to switch to one dose of two-dose cholera vaccine amid rising outbreaks

20 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. An artist paints a mural as part of the "cholera" campaign to depict the suffering of cholera patients in Sanaa, Yemen; April 25, 2019.

Healthcare

Cholera outbreaks surging worldwide, fatality rates rising - WHO

Jennifer Rigby 3 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters/Denis Balibouse. WHO regional director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti.

Healthcare

Kenya, World Health Organization launch emergency hub

Ayenat Mersie, Elias Biryabarema and Jason Neely 11 Jul 2022

Source: ©Elvira Koneva

Covid-19

Compulsory Covid-19 vaccines?

28 Sep 2021

New Nespresso blend helps revive fragile coffee farming in the DRC

FMCG

New Nespresso blend helps revive fragile coffee farming in the DRC

5 Aug 2021

7 reasons why rural sanitation, wastewater management is vital for SA

Food, Water & Energy Security

7 reasons why rural sanitation, wastewater management is vital for SA

Chetan Mistry 30 Jun 2021

Water solutions to aid the most vulnerable in Kenya

Infrastructure & Utilities

Water solutions to aid the most vulnerable in Kenya

Simon Thomas 31 Dec 2020

Covid-19 will not change cities in long term - Norman Foster

Architecture & Design

Covid-19 will not change cities in long term - Norman Foster

26 Oct 2020