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Tanya Pampalone

Reporter · ZA

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Aug 25, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Mail & Guardian
Top 100K sites
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Jul 4, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Tanya Pampalone

    The first wave of generic weight-loss drugs hit SA in August. Will it be enough to kill the black market? (opens the original)

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    It was a carnivorous lizard with a forked tongue, sharp claws and beady skin that helped rewire the appetite of millions of people around the world, making hunger something you can switch off with a few clicks and a jab. In the 1990s, an American scientist by the name of John Eng identified a molecule in the venom of the Gila monster, which spends most of its life underground in North American deserts. The reptile has an interesting approach to food. It emerges from the darkness just a handful o

  2. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Tanya Pampalone

    ‘This is how we do it’: 30 years of caring for a son with cerebral palsy (opens the original)

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    Cerebral palsy often announces itself in the space where a milestone should be. For Keneilwe Dikoma, it was when she took her baby for his six-month check-up at a clinic near their home in Lotlhakane, a village of scattered homesteads and open veld in North West. By then, Lorato should have had the physical skills healthcare workers look for to make sure babies are on track — rolling over, pushing up with straight arms and sitting. Dikoma was a teenager at the time, just 16, and it was her first

  3. Article · Jul 4, 2026 · Tanya Pampalone, Mia Malan, Anna-Maria van Niekerk

    Could the NHI fuel anti-immigrant sentiment? (opens the original)

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    There is no government deadline. In fact, nothing exists outside of a fake flyer circulating on social media warning foreigners they will be arrested, detained or deported unless they leave the country. The kind of nothing that blocked clinic doors for months, demanding papers from suspected non-nationals without any legal right. As is the anti-immigrant sentiment unfolding on the streets that has the very real potential for the kind of violence which took 62 lives in 2008, including 27 South Af

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