Sipokazi Fokazi is a Sunday Times, TimesLIVE and Sunday Times Daily journalist with a special interest in health and social justice matters.

‘I am afraid the news is not good’: How medics struggled to break sad news ...

Unpredictability of Covid-19 meant health workers were caught off-guard by sudden deaths and did not always prepare families for the news, study ...

‘I buy food in bulk to save, I don’t qualify for funding’: Unfunded university ...

The education department says nearly 70,000 students don’t qualify for NSFAS because their household income is above R350,000.

Doubling sugar tax will help starving children: NGO’s plea to Godongwana

The tax works out to about 10% of the cost of sugary drinks

‘Our patients bear the true cost’ of shoestring budgets: jobless junior doctors

Hot in the heels of unemployed doctors’ march to KZN offices, a Western Cape cohort highlights austerity that ‘could be catastrophic’

‘As medical practitioners, we should assist patients to have as gentle and ...

Leading doctors and academics say it is important that ‘medically assisted dying is patient-initiated and patient-driven’

Cape Town International Jazz Festival postponed to ‘later in 2024’

The festival attracted about 30,000 people each year and was one of the biggest and most popular jazz festivals in the world

Here’s why childhood spent in a rural area is good for your health

Research examined how environmental exposure influenced inflammatory response in children

SA’s cancer treatment obstacles are causing ‘needless deaths’

Blacks experience greater hurdles than whites as 70% of cancer specialists in the public sector are white and hindered by language barriers, says ...

‘I don’t know what is to become of my future’: prospective first-year student

Every day, since her matric results came out on January 19, Mache du Toit uses her smartphone for one priority — checking if she has been accepted by ...

Inadequate disability grants for SA children thrust families into poverty

Stellenbosch University PhD graduate’s study has found families without an income that care for a disabled child, can barely survive on the state ...