Durban - Tuberculosis (TB) despite it being treatable disease is the world's biggest infectious killer, claiming the lives of an estimated 1.6 million people around the world every year including 78 000 South Africans. 

Parliament - For every worker who dies each year as a result of an accident on a South African mine, nine more die of tuberculosis, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Thursday.

Cape Town - Khayelitsha’s Zoliswa Mkiva, 32, is the third patient in the township to be cured of extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB).

The case of a man claiming he picked up tuberculosis while in prison through the negligence of prison authorities will be heard in the Constitutional Court later this month.

South African researchers said on Friday they were conducting medical trials to shorten the duration of tuberculosis treatment, to make it easier for patients to complete the full regimen.