Features

Dembe Ndou learned to play piano in no time at all, but simply chatting is a complex challenge.

In the state sector, not everyone is equal. Some of us have to pay an arm, a leg and a full working day.

Three people have been arrested after a Pondoland initiate who lost his penis and spoke out about it in public was beaten for "shaming the custom".

Alcohol abuse breeds apathy and joblessness, and fuels abuse in an ever more vicious cycle.

A Johannesburg director has taken up the continuing tragedy of botched circumcisions.

We feature four HIV positive women in their 40s who fit the profile of a typical M&G reader.

Cannabis may well have beneficial properties, but experts warn that smoking it is still bad for your health.

Badly needed and eager to work here, their efforts are being thwarted by a bureaucratic quagmire.

There are many off the shelf products to help your sex life, but little is known about them – and their effects.

Simple phone services are stepping in to help women who can't seek clinical advice in person.

Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.

Clinical associates are changing the medical sector by freeing up doctors to do more.

Women in South Africa are waking up to the dangers posed by fetal alcohol syndrome.

A procedure new to SA has allowed a young mother to give part of her liver to save her son.

Organ donations are rare in SA: donors and the specialists needed to do transplants are few. But awareness increases as more lives are being saved.

A new single-dose drug is freely available after a bumpy start.