Selling sex
From Amsterdam’s glittering canals to Durban’s dark streets, take a look at how the world legislates sex — and why it matters.
Is codeine Africa’s drug of choice?
Common cough, flu and pain medicines can be addictive. Codeine addiction is an increasingly well-known problem in South Africa.
[From our archives] The boys who lost their manhood
During this initiation season, we look back at what happened in 2013 when bungled initiations cost boys their penises.
The dark smell of illness: One family’s struggle for news from inside the ICU
You can’t visit family members with COVID-19 in hospital. So how do you find out how they’re doing? Mia Malan from the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism documented
one woman’s story.
Child rape in Diepsloot: The shocking story that sparked outrage
Read an excerpt from the award-winning story that kick-started a campaign to link survivors of rape and gender-based violence to care.
“I thought it’s just what fathers do.” How sex ed can tackle child abuse
Thousands of children are abused by someone close to them but are unable to report it, because they’re either too scared or don’t realise they’re being abused. Here’s how training teachers to provide proper sex education can help them.
Speak more than one language? This is what it does to your brain.
Speaking more than one language could lead to better tests scores and even being a more empathetic person.
Unearthing the salt hidden in your diet
Some of your favourite comfort food could be concealing a killer.
‘My neighbour murdered nearly all of my family, but now we are friends’
Thanks to a pioneering project survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide now live side by side in 'reconciliation villages'.
From our archives: This disposable piece of technology might save your life – if...
Many diabetics are dependent on expensive blood sugar testing strips to stay alive. Most in South Africa can't afford it.
‘My mom was too scared to check what was wrong. In the end, doctors...
Early screening for cervical cancer can be a lifesaver but are nonprofit organisations enough to fill the gap in KZN's crumbling system?
Could this be the second major city on the verge of a ‘day zero’?
Taps in capital city of Maputo being turned off every other day as climate change exacerbates southern African drought
This costs just cents and could prevent half-a-million children from going blind
The substance is critical in pregnancy and in the development of children; a lack of it has dire consequences.
Inside the illegal abortion market: ‘I nearly touched hell’
Zimbabwe’s tight abortion laws aren’t curbing demand, they’re driving them underground — and it’s about to get worse.
Sangomas learn to meld muti with conventional medicine
Traditional and Western healers team up to treat patients with HIV and tuberculosis because many people consult more than one health system.
Cobras & cures: Why the world is running chronically low on snake antivenom
Each year, millions will be bitten by venomous snakes and for many, antivenom will remain painfully out of reach. Discovering why is a tale...