For thousands of years, many cultures have extracted essential oils from flowers, bark, stems, leaves, roots and fruit to manage and heal certain ailments.
Hoedspruit will be the home of a new form of tourism geared at medical professionals, writes Vuyo Mkize.
It is said the best and most important relationship you can ever have is with yourself.
When you think of a boot-camp workout, an image of a military drill sergeant blowing a menacing whistle and shouting: ?Drop and give me 20 push-ups," tends to spring to mind.
Introducing the new exercise programme that will literally leave your heart pounding, writes Vuyo Mkize
In this day and age, there is an app for everything – but what about an app that could help couples struggling to fall pregnant know the best times for them to try to conceive by interpreting the alignment of their astrological charts?
Work is the leading stress factor for graduate professionals in the country.
An interministerial task team, chaired by Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini, has been set up to reduce foetal alcohol syndrome.
Impractical, senseless and a threat to business is how liquor industry associations describe a plan to ban smoking in public places.
Actress and TV presenter Naniki Seboni shares the moment she was diagnosed with malignant melanoma.
Vuyo Mkize travels to Dar es Salaam and finds a place of rare beauty where the travel gods are friendly too.
Up until 10 weeks ago, 5-year-old Amy Miller was having a normal childhood – as normal as a childhood can be for someone born with a congenital heart defect.
To braai or not to braai. That was the question that researchers at North West University had to grapple with.
Police tape barricades the house, withered leaves lay in pockets on the driveway and dead plants hang on the veranda of a house in Edenvale where the skeleton of a 77-year-old woman was found on Thursday.
National Health Laboratory Service employees are demanding the same remuneration as public workers.
The strain of influenza which caused a global pandemic in 2009 may be doing the rounds again this year, but there is no reason to panic.
South Africa will send a mobile diagnostic laboratory to West Africa to help medics dealing with Ebola in the region.
Voters in Windsor West braved the cold morning air to secure their spots in line.
Gauteng traffic police believe a 16-month-old boy was purposely abandoned alongside the N1 near Grasmere.
Not over a month, or during the holiday period, or even a week, but over one weekend.
A nurse who contracted the MRSA bacterium says her hospital’s hygiene standards might have something to do with it.
Florida residents were seething after a blunder by City Power officials destroyed their home electronic equipment and wiring.
The outcome of Henry Okah’s sentencing could escalate unrest in Nigeria, the court has heard.
Items from the set of The Wild are about to go under the hammer, with the hour-long finale to be aired soon.
Nana Meriwether makes history as the first African American with South African roots to be crowned Miss USA.
