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This man from rural Eastern Cape had to travel all the way to Cuba to make his dream of becoming a doctor come true. Now, he is back home and treating patients at the same hospital his mother used to sell fruit in front of when he was a boy.

The kidnapping of young girls ignores the 'niceties' of a cultural practice.

Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.

With the severe effects of the habit on the unborn child now widely known, why do pregnant mothers refuse to give up?

An eighth-grade teenager shows how funky and strong her fight against a four-letter word is. Mia Malan reports.

Pregnant women who drink alcohol put their unborn children at greater risk than they think, writes Mia Malan.