Johannesburg, Sep 27 - Traditional healers in South Africa now refer critically ill patients to modern doctors as there were certain illnesses they could not cure due to superior technology found in hospitals, state-run news agency BuaNews said.

Frank Chauke, chairman of the Mopani Traditional Healers in northern Limpopo province, said traditional healers should not be motivated by money.

Johannesburg  - Most of the around 1 million people that succumb to malaria annually still have no access to effective testing and drugs, international medical non-governmental organization, Doctors without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres MSF), said Tuesday.

Johannesburg  - Subsistence farmers in the impoverished southern African kingdom of Swaziland will get help from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to buy seeds as rising prices put agricultural inputs beyond the reach of many.

Johannesburg, June 8 : Nearly 25 pct of South Africans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), says a leading psychiatrist.

Dr Eugene Allers, psychiatrist and former-president of the South African Society of Psychiatry (Sasop) revealed that up to six million South Africans suffer from PTSD and the country has become a "breeding ground" for psychiatric problems, reports News24.

Out of the 25 pct, nearly a third of these people are between the 30 and 40 years of age.