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Mother Teresa was born in Albania and at a young age felt compelled to care for the sick and poor.
When she was 18 years old, she left home and joined the Loreto sisters, an Irish community of nuns working in India. After teaching at St Mary's High School. she left the mission to work in the slums of Calcutta.
Faithfully waiting for their jailed men’s return
Can a marriage survive a lengthy prison sentence? What keeps a wife faithful to a husband who is doing time in prison?
Two women - who asked to remain anonymous because they have underage children - share their stories with Sowetan on why they are patiently waiting for their men to return home.
Beat the blues
Finding out and coping with the news that you are HIV+ is not something you are ever prepared for. even with a change in lifestyle and the correct medication, coming to grips with this can increase the burden many South African women already carry.
Being a single mother, living on a tight budget, coping with violence and abuse, being the main caregiver for family members - these are some of the situations women live with on a daily basis.
Check your breasts, do the tests!
At 58 years of age, Busisiwe Mlambo (not her real name) had already reached menopause, yet she was still bleeding from her vagina.
Late last year, doctors informed her she had cervical cancer. Busisiwe was scared and confused.
Healthy mother-child relationships
In today's society where broken families are rife and the effects of HIV and Aids further complicate family life, a senior lecturer and clinical psychologist at the North-West University (NWU) is doing groundbreaking research that will ultimately assist in bettering the lives of HIV-affected families.
Ruan Spies, of the school for psychosocial behavioural studies on the Potchefstoom campus, was awarded a prestigious doctoral bursary from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in the Netherlands for his pioneering research.
Pathfinders blaze trail of tribulation
Although they are often treated as smugglers, informal cross-border traders provide food security and income to millions of people in Southern Africa. A third of the region's trade is conducted by these entrepreneurial people, most of them women providing for their families.
But although experts acknowledge that their contribution to the economy saves lives and provides livelihoods, traders fight a daily battle against high taxes, corruption and maltreatment by officials.
HIV is no death sentence!
She is a popular radio talkshow host, successful businesswoman and former nurse.
She also is an HIV/Aids activist. Criselda Kananda was diagnosed with HIV 16 years ago. She is one of 6.4 million people in Mzansi living with the virus.
SA gynaecologists thin on the ground
South Africa has been hit by a massive shortage of gynaecologists because they had abandoned their profession en masse over the past few years.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said gynaecologists in both public and private healthcare institutions had left the profession, saying it was less profitable and therefore "not worth it".
More women unemployed
More women than men in Mpumalanga do not have matric.
Social development MEC Candith Mashego-Dlamini said a recent Statistics SA report on education reflected that out of 1 568 741 economically active young people in Mpumalanga, 448 126 are unemployed and the majority of them are females.
Condoms: One size doesn’t fit all
Global Female Condom Day on September 16 provides an opportune moment to reflect critically on what's still needed to increase female condom access and promote wider choice in sexual and reproductive health and rights in South Africa.
From the high rates of sexually transmitted infections and the numbers of unintended pregnancies, especially among young people, it is clear that the game plan for addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of women and girls needs greater impetus from across sectors.
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