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Oscar ‘doing well’ after night in hospital

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Oscar is doing well under the circumstances, his father Henke Pistorius says.

The Paralympic athlete was kept in Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, Pretoria overnight for observation after experiencing chest pains on Thursday morning.

“He has been discharged and is back in the facility,” Logan Maistry, spokesperson for the department of correctional services, told AFP.

Henke told YOU Oscar had previously had “bad colds” and it was not clear whether this was a reason for the severe pains in his chest.

Several tests have been performed on Oscar since Thursday and “all the tests were negative”, said Henke.

The 30-year-old is serving a six-year prison sentence for the murder of his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in February 2013.

Oscar has been behind bars for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp, since July 6 last year. He argued that he thought she was an intruder.

He was transferred from the Kgosi Mampuru II prison to the Atteridgeville priso
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Aaron Motsoaledi – The outbreak of listeriosis is over

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Grocery stores have been given the green light to once again stock processed meat on shelves and pack them in lunch boxes. This comes almost six months after polony and other ready-to-eat processed meats were declared no-go areas by the Department of Health.

“A team of World Health Organisation (WHO) international and local experts [have] agreed that because no cases of listeriosis due to the outbreak strain have been identified since the first week of June 2018 and that over the last two months the incidence rate of laboratory-confirmed listeriosis cases has dropped to pre-outbreak levels, the outbreak of listeriosis is over,” said Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

While processed meats were officially given the clear at a media briefing on Monday, Motsoaledi warned the public that listeria is still a reality.

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Black South-African farmer pleads with parliament to leave land constitution alone – land expropriation without compensation, don’t do it!

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Black South-African farmer pleads with parliament to leave land constitution alone - land expropriation without compensation, don’t do it!

Ramodisa Monaisa travelled from his small farm in the North West to Parliament where he had one request for MPs tasked with deciding if the Constitution should be amended to allow land expropriation without compensation: don’t do it. On the outskirts of Mahikeng, in an area called Mareetsane, Monaisa employs just one person on his..
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Government of SA is to blame that we are excluded from US tariff relief

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Government of SA is to blame that we are excluded from US tariff relief

South Africa has been left out of countries to receive relief from steel and aluminium tariffs from US President Donald Trump’s administration. This is after Trump reportedly signed proclamations permitting targeted relief from steel and aluminium quotas from countries including South Korea, Brazil and Argentina and on aluminium from Argentina. South Africa was among developing..
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Petrol predicted to hit R19 by end of 2018

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Petrol predicted to hit R19 by end of 2018

Petrol price is set to increase for the fifth time this year due to a weaker rand. Deputy editor at Finacial Mail Sikonathi Mantshantsha says he is predicting that South Africans will be paying R19 per litre of petrol by the end of 2018. The rand weakened to about R14 after Argentina increased its interest..
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EFF leader, Julius Malema under attack by his own followers – his car was smashed with stones and his bodyguards were forced to fire live ammunition while escorting him to safety

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EFF students attacked Malema’s car with stones and his bodyguards had to open fire on them to protect their red leprechaun leader. The bodyguards of EFF leader Julius Malema allegedly fired live rounds at party members who threw bottles at his car when he was leaving a party conference on Saturday in Gauteng. The party’s..
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WATCH: Students at University of Limpopo refuse to write difficult exam

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WATCH: Students at University of Limpopo refuse to write difficult exam

In videos that went viral on social media, hundreds of students from the University of Limpopo (UL) can be seen exiting a lecture hall because the exam they were set to write was ‘too difficult’. UL’s spokesperson Johannes Selepe, confirmed to IOL that the video is authentic, adding that investigations are underway and action will..
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Would you test for HIV in your living room?

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It starts with a swab but does it end with a diagnosis? Why the trickiest part of DIY HIV testing happens after the test

The trick, says Ann Moore as she pulls the small white stick from the plastic packaging, is not just to swab the gums but to scrape them.

The doctor sticks the rod under her lip and drags it first along one side of her gums, then the other.

“You don’t want saliva. You want the cells – the antibodies.”

She places the stick into a tube of clear liquid and waits. One line would mean she is HIV negative; two, HIV positive.

In 2013, the United Nations set the world an ambitious target of “90-90-90”: the idea was that, by 2020, 90% of all HIV-infected people would know their status, 90% of those diagnosed with HIV would be on antiretrovirals, and 90% of people receiving treatment would be virally suppressed.

Just three years away from the goal date, and with only 65% of South Africa’s 6.8-million people living with HIV diagn
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Anger as KZN hospital sends child home with gaping wound

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A child is back in a KwaZulu-Natal hospital after being discharged with a gaping bleeding wound‚ forcing his aunt to turn to Twitter to demand help.

But the health department disputes the version of events.

The 8-year-old boy was discharged from Madadeni hospital in Newcastle on Monday with an open wound‚ following an appendix operation.

His aunt‚ Gabi Manana‚ asked her friend to tweet the pictures of the child’s festering incision without identifying him.

Manana said: “I was looking for help‚ that is why I put that thing on Twitter.”

The tweet asked national health department officials for help.

The boy was in too much pain to walk on Monday‚ said Manana.

People who viewed the tweet were worried the large uncovered wound could become septic.

On Monday night‚ Health Department spokesman Joe Maila responded to the tweet saying he had called Kwazulu-Natal health officials.

They called the child’s aunt on Monday night.

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Medical aids spying on doctors with hidden cameras – High Court claim

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The National Healthcare Professionals Association of South Africa has filed papers in the Pretoria High Court accusing 19 medical aid schemes of spying on doctors and sneaking hidden cameras into their consulting rooms.

The Sunday Times reported that medical aids are also allegedly holding back payments to doctors due to unproven misconduct.

The association – formed in October 2016 – has 320 members around South Africa, of which 65 are part of the court application.

Many medical aids will oppose the application and deny any wrongdoing, stating that fraud and false claims amount to millions of rand each year and were on the rise.

The lawsuit specifically named Discovery, stating that the scheme has sent spies and private investigators with concealed video cameras and recording equipment into private consultation rooms without consent.

According to the association, this is unlawful as it infringes on the doctor-patient relationship, and the doctor’s
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Probe exonerates Livingstone Hospital in death and maggots row

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Livingstone Hospital investigations have found that nobody can be held liable for two shocking incidents in which a patient fell to his death from the fifth floor and maggots hatched in the wound of another.

But the family of Zakes Mbeki, 29, who fell from the fifth story of the hospital early on Christmas morning, after he was admitted forseizures, want an inquest magistrate to decide who was responsible.

Clint Morris, whose leg wound became infested with maggots after he allegedly begged nurses for days to change his surgical dressings, has vowed to ensure that the hospital admits to wrongdoing.Morris, 40, had been injured in a scooter accident in December.

Eastern Cape health department superintendent-general Dr Thobile Mbengashe ordered an investigation into why maggots had hatched in Morris’s wound.

Provincial health department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said investigators had concluded in both cases that nobody could be held responsible.

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Medical Aid Fraud:- Audiologist convicted of 259 counts

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Earlier this month, Wandile Theophilus Mashego, an audiologist and speech therapist practising in Pretoria, was found guilty of 259 counts of medical aid fraud and one count for contravening Section 66 of the Medical Schemes Act.

The case was brought against him by Bonitas Medical Fund after it was discovered he had been submitting fraudulent claims on behalf of members over a period of two years – from 2014 to 2015.

A soon to be identified ‘runner’ provided details of Bonitas Medical Fund members to Mashego, who then billed Bonitas fraudulently, for ‘services’ to these members.

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Mashego pleaded guilty under Section 105A of the Criminal Procedure Act 77 of 1951 and was sentence
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Hefty Sentences Meted to Farm Attackers and Rapists – each get 38 years sentence

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Hefty Sentences Meted to Farm Attackers and Rapists - each get 38 years sentence

Hefty sentences were meted out to four men found guilty of farm attack and rape by different courts in three separate incidents in the province. First to be sentenced, are two men, Kansas Mintoor aged 34 and Andries Funwako Masilela Nkabinde aged 47, that were sentenced on 15 August 2018, by the Evander Regional Court..
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Private sector skills and resources of enormous benefit to implementation of NHI

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Private sector skills and resources of enormous benefit to implementation of NHI
©Andriy Popov via [[www.123RF.com 123RF]]</span>The achievement of universal healthcare coverage in South Africa could be thwarted by Cosatu's opposition to the National Department of Health's plan to allow the private sector to have a role in the implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI).
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A New Healthcare Plan promises to overhaul South Africa’s massively skewed system

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Since 1994 South Africa has invested substantial resources in healthcare services. As a result, it’s has made significant health gains. For example, nearly 4-million people get HIV treatment and mother-to-child transmission has nearly been eliminated.

Service delivery has also been significantly expanded to more than 4000 health facilities. And there’s been a large increase in the number of healthcare professionals.

But health care needs aren’t static. For example, non-communicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension are now responsible for more deaths than HIV and TB combined. And in some instances successes have created challenges. For example, the expansion of HIV treatment has meant that there’s now a large cohort of chronic patients requiring ongoing care. In addition, the reality of a largely youthful population requires interventions so that health gains aren’t lost.

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