Forty years on, the world is edging closer to eradicating HIV
The photo resembles many others that have been flooding the internet for months. A young man, leaning back in a chair, waits with the sleeve […]
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Protests against police brutality in Eswatini
The SUDF and other political formations in Eswatini are calling for an end to police brutality.
A new Chile in the making and the rise of the non-traditional left
As a result of the uprising, Chileans voted on the 15th and 16th of May 2021 for a 155-seat constitutional assembly to forge a new constitution, along with electing governors, mayors and councillors across the country – with dramatic outcomes.
Surviving lockdown as migrants living in SA
On Africa Day, migrants from the other parts of the continent based in South Africa talk about the hardships they continue to endure under Covid-19 and the lockdown.
Elderly people unsure about vaccination registration
To register the technologically illiterate among the elderly on the system, the health department is calling on the services of community health workers.
Justice delayed again for assaulted farmworker
Violence on South African farms is endemic and farmworkers all too commonly are the victims.
Public inquiry into the RDM explosion
Peace activist and country coordinator for World Beyond War, Terry Crawford- Browne, kept a diary of the inquiry into the explosion that happened in September 2018 at the Rheinmetall Denel Munition. These are his notes.
Families of slain Rheinmetall workers say the company is responsible
The explosion at the munitions plant in Macassar in the Western Cape took place in September 2018, taking the lives of eight workers and injuring one other.
Joburg wastepickers against “recycling levy”
The formalisation of recycling in Joburg city looks to sideline the people who have been doing the work informally all along.
Cape Town firefighters suspended for demanding fair jobs
Cape Town firefighters say that they are expected to put out fires while facing disciplinary action, and that they are exhausted and stressed.
Evicted in the midst of a pandemic: Belgium’s housing crisis
Florence has been living in Brussels since 2009 and has spent the last three years in social housing in the municipality of Schaarbeek. A few […]
Covid-19 makes a bad situation worse for agricultural migrant workers in Canada
Maria Lopez begged to get time off to go to church for Christmas. She had worked for months as a packer in a greenhouse in […]
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