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Hundreds of doctors in South Africa are calling for Ivermectin to be made legal in South Africa to help treat COVID-19 patients.

The demand for the antiparasitic drug is apparently growing on the black market.

Nabeelah Shaikh has the details.

A group of 400 South African doctors have rallied together to help.

Doctors from a rural hospital in Limpopo are up in arms after their salaries were docked for participating in a go-slow over the shortage of personal protective equipment in April.

Our reporter Thabo Tlomatsana has the details.

A dream to help treat their fellow South Africans, has been shattered for 50 doctors who studied outside of the country.

Nabeelah Shaikh spoke to the doctors, and filed this report.

A senior medical officer working for the Western Cape Health Department has made an impassioned plea for all to follow COVID-19 protocols.
In an open letter to Capetonians, she lays bare the utter exhaustion of healthcare workers and says ‘This is my nightmare and yours. Once the beds are full
and oxygen used up, and we are rapidly approaching that point, then my hospital and so many others will not be able to help.
They will be clearing stations for corpses’.
Dr Andrea Mendelsohn joined us via Skype to share more of what’s happening in local hospitals.

The two men accused of the brutal murder of a Soweto grandmother, and the rape of her granddaughter, appeared in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

The suspects Aron Mwera and Nkosinathi Gqoba appeared in court via video-link.

Their bail application has been postponed to next month.

Graeme Raubenheimer was at the court and filed this report.

DNA tests related to the murder of 21-year-old farm manager, Brendin Horner, excludes one of the accused, as a suspect.

That's what the Senekal Magistrate's court heard from the state prosecutor on Tuesday.

The two accused Sekola Matlaletsa and Sekwetje Mahlamba have asked the court to grant them bail.

Horner's lifeless body was found tied to a pole with a rope around his neck earlier this month.

Graeme Raubenheimer was in court and filed this report.

For more than nine years, young women in Gauteng's Ekurhuleni area, have lived in terror,
fearing that they could be the next victim, of a serial rapist who did his stalking in Benoni,
Daveyton and Crystal Park. Police spokesperson Vish Naidoo joined us, with the latest on this alleged serial rapist, who's apparently been preying on victims as young as 12 years old, since 2012.

Gender-based violence and sexual assault cases, are keeping the South African Police Service’s plate extremely full. There are currently more than 300 000 rape cases registered for investigation. And activists and experts say if a massive DNA backlog is not eradicated,
rape survivors could be waiting up to two years for crucial evidence in their case.
Rianté Padayachee reports.