Tamsin Metelerkamp

Journalist at Daily Maverick

[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

On a visit to Limpopo villages affected by the flooding disaster, Daily Maverick witnessed not only the destruction wrought by the storms, but the resilience of communities looking out for their own.
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[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

@RubyG_Pix @EElawcentre Hi Robyn. I hope you're well. I'm a journalist looking at the issue of unplaced Grade R learners. Could we maybe connect and I could learn a bit more about the challenges you're facing? Thanks

[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

Cape Town fire stations often act as primary emergency care points. At the Ottery Fire Station, crew members have learnt to be prepared for anything – heart problems, traumatic injuries, even childbirth.

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A report by the community-led monitoring group Ritshidze has shown that among 326 public health facilities surveyed by the team, 48% reported reduced capacity after the Pepfar disruptions that took place in early 2025.

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[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

Patients at the Northern Cape Mental Health Hospital in Kimberley were ‘freezing to death’ between July and August 2024, when issues with the electricity supply led to their exposure to extremely cold winter conditions.

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[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

The Right to Play Campaign is calling on the City of CT to take urgent action to address the ‘dangerous’ conditions in Baba Park, Mfuleni, and other play parks across poor and working-class communities.

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The Cape Town Silent Book Club is part of a movement that’s re-writing the rules of reading groups.

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Linda Dewy, resident of Ahmed Kathrada House, an occupied building in Green Point, Cape Town. Together with several other women, she leads the unconventional community in the heart of the city.

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[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

A deepfake video, generated using AI technology, is using the likeness of the renowned South African physician Prof Salim Abdool Karim to push disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines and promote a bogus heart medicine on social media.

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[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

A cohort of young doctors whose training was funded by the Free State government through the Nelson Mandela-Fidel Castro Bursary programme have been unable to find work in the public health sector upon completing their community service.

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[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

Just more than a week after he was declared ‘persona non grata’ in the US, the former South African ambassador has arrived at Cape Town International Airport.

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[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

Almost a month on from US President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing almost all foreign development assistance, many key health HIV/AIDS programmes in South Africa have been unable to resume life-saving services for patients in need.

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The Daily Maverick team is ready to bring you the latest from SONA 2025. Working outside CT City Hall to report on the arrivals and reaction after the speech: @ToriOregan, @tams_intransit, @Nkulee_Njilo and @SunePayne.

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[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

The US Secretary of State has backpedalled on the near-total freeze of US foreign aid, stating that ‘life-saving humanitarian assistance’ would be continued. There is widespread uncertainty about which programmes fall under the new waiver. | @ToriOregan
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‘I’m breaching my Hippocratic oath’ – Trump freeze halts HIV programmes https://t.co/d7w6ZGzMqY

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has linked an over-the-counter probiotic to an outbreak of bacteraemia cases in private hospitals in Gauteng and North West.

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[Pauli Van Wyk @PaulivW]

‘Waiting lists to work for free’ – the struggle to specialise for young doctors in SA. - @tams_intransit https://t.co/7JnFXU903a

Important story in the context of #NHI plans.

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Government seeks eviction law change as number of informal settlements soars https://t.co/yE7WhwPOJi

[Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit]

The controversial practice of heritable human genome editing remains illegal in South Africa, despite the addition of a research section on it in the South African Ethics in Health Research Guidelines 2024.

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[Pauli Van Wyk @PaulivW]

#OpenSecrets: How powerful African families laundered money to buy luxury properties in South Africa, with the help of estate agents #PamGolding, #Greeff and #REMAX as well as a number of law firms. - ⁦@tams_intransit⁩ https://t.co/yN7YwQqwvd