South Africa: The Reality of Providing Safe Abortion During A National...
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While South Africa’s lockdown regulations rules clearly state that abortion services are to continue throughout, some were turned back. Here’s how Kgaladi...
After 10 years in camps in Myanmar, Rohingya mental health continues...
In 2012, when violence erupted between Rohingya and Rakhine communities, Zaw Rina’s home in Pauktaw town was burned down. She was forced to flee...
An Open Letter to UP: why don’t you care about our...
Kemelo Sehlapelo believes the University of Pretoria (UP) needs to do more to look after the mental wellbeing of its students.
On the 18th of...
#COVID-19: 5 Ways To Protect Your Mental Health
Months into 2020 and normal as we know it has disappeared. We’re in the midst of a global pandemic and COVID-19 is spreading across...
Tackling Menstruation Stigma Through Education
For many menstruators around the world, getting ones period for the first time or every time after that is a frightening experience. Not only...
OPINION: Death by suicide: the final symptom of mental illness
Twenty-three people will die from suicide today in South Africa. Another 460 South Africans will try to end their lives today. They are from...
Rape in a place of platinum
A snapshot of the community of Rustenburg shows a place of plenty, also a place of poverty. Â Ufrieda Ho argues that beyond the juxtaposition,...
Covid-19: How survivors’ guilt might be affecting you
Living through a pandemic, surrounded by death and illness and growing inequality, is a difficult thing. But when adding to all that feelings of...
“It’s like an empty battery trying to work” – living with...
Friday, 12 May is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has been dismissed as "yuppie flu" or "shirker syndrome" in the...
Students Are Not “Committing Suicide”, Universities Are Killing Us
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I first went into a psychiatric ward when I was eighteen. I struggled with serious depression and had attempted suicide. At that age I...
Wits Students Commemorates The Life Of Sanele Dhlamini
"If we as a family knew why this all happened to my brother, maybe we would have found peace," said Sanele Xolani Dhlamini's older...
The importance of World AIDS Day
HIV/AIDS remains a major public health issue that affects millions of people worldwide. There were almost 37.7 million people globally living with HIV...
How unaffordable healthcare costs leave people prone to dangers of self-medication
"I haven't been to a doctor in a couple of years now; and it's not because I never get sick but I can't afford...
Why Nomzamo Mbatha Gives Us All The Feels
You might know Nomzamo Mbatha as the actor who won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Moratiwa in...
Six reasons why you shouldn’t bother watching Thirteen Reasons Why
At the end of March, Netflix released the series adaptation of the popular young adult novel Thirteen Reasons Why to much enthusiasm. Even though...
Rhodes University Students Mourn The Death Of Khensani Maseko
Students at Rhodes University are mourning the death of third year law student, Khensani Maseko. Maseko was allegedly raped by her then-boyfriend in May...
