surgery
Tygerberg Hospital, the first public hospital to perform robotic surgery
By Mduduzi Malinga
Tygerberg Hospital is the first public hospital in South Africa that has successfully performed a robot-assisted surgery in February this year. Introducing...
Meet the doctors: The two Miss South Africa semi-finalists on the medical front-line
Two of the Miss South Africa Top 15 semi-finalists – Karishma Ramdev and Thato Mosehle – are medical doctors who are currently working at...
Gift of the Givers 25 years of philanthropy: Dr Livan Meneses-Turino
In a series of five articles, we share stories from Gift of the Givers volunteers in their own words as the organisation marks its...
South African inventions
Where would you expect to find the inventor of the CAT scan, the makers of the
"speed gun" used in cricket ovals the world over, or the world's first oil-from-coal
refinery?
Dr Ncumisa Jilata: Africa’s youngest neurosurgeon
At the age of 29, Mthatha-born Dr Ncumisa Jilata has become Africa's youngest neurosurgeon following her Fellowship graduation in Durban on 18 May 2017....
Remembering Nelson Mandela’s first steps of freedom
On Sunday 11 February 1990 - 25 years ago - millions of people around the world watched as
Nelson Mandela walked out of the gates of Victor Verster prison in Paarl.
Cape Town to honour pioneering medical researcher Hamilton Naki
A posthumous honour is in the pipeline for the late Hamilton Naki, the medical research specialist who helped the team that performed the world’s...
Mother shares her heart-warming Smile Foundation story
The Smile Foundation South Africa, founded in 2000 after a plea from President Nelson Mandela, changed Sylvia Mchunu's daughter's life.
Sylvia Mchunu and...
Love Life; Gift Life calls for organ donors
Founders of Love Life; Gift Life and lung transplant recipients (l to r) Shaylene Perry, Fawn Rogers and Siobhan Scallan have a second lease...
Poaching victim Hope survives surgery
Hope the rhino was tranquillised by poachers who hacked off her horn and left her for dead, but
a dedicated team of wildlife surgeons and conservationists have saved the rhino from what one
vet called "easily one of the worst injuries that I have ever worked on".