It's 7:30 p.m. in the South African city of Cape Town. Paramedic Papinki Lebelo wears an expression of deep frustration as he waits in his ambulance outside the Philippi East police station. He's ...

Each of South Africa’s nine provinces has a Department of Health with a government ambulance service. In addition, the country has some 200 private ambulance services nationwide.

The medical crew and their ambulance from Cape Town's Emergency ... I would have helped that baby." Four of South Africa's top five homicide hotspots last year were in the Cape Flats, according ...