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An open letter to ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.

Appalling conditions in Free State hospitals reveal a health care system that seems to be corrupt from top to bottom.

In the Free State, access to health services can depend on who you know, as the tragic case of one woman illustrates.

Along with better access to health services and reducing child marriage, education can save many lives.

This week holds the opportunity for us to show that we are serious about having a world where no child is born to die.

The TAC says it fears the arrest of over 50 community healthcare workers after they began a sit-in at the province's health department headquarters.

An NGO is changing lives by giving prosthetic limbs to amputees from rural and poor areas.

Greater collaboration and sharing of information between stakeholders will lead to reductions in costs.

Free State's health department has been reported to the SA Human Rights Commission over "rights violations" such as food shortages and overcrowding.

The TAC and Section27 say their investigation into the province's health department shows it needs urgent intervention by three state ministries.

The much-anticipated sanctioning of Wouter Basson has still not happened, 13 years later.

Less than half of those treated for resistant strains of TB survive. It's just not good enough.

These stories show how complex health is in Mpumalanga, and how few opportunities there are for disempowered people to change their circumstances.

Ivory Park's Operation Thiba Nyaope provides support for addicts and their affected families.

While many say the Free State health department's financial situation is dire, officials say "there's no problem at all".

Where traditional beliefs are more real than textbooks, treating mental illness is a balancing act for sangomas and medical doctors alike.