Day care centres demand support
Affected by the pandemic and the lockdown, early childhood development centres around the country are calling for government support.
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E Cape care worker protest ends with job offer
Eastern Cape careworkers feel hopeful after meeting with the Department of Health.
Community care workers still locked out of permanent jobs
The Eastern Cape Health Department assured care workers they would be signing permanent contracts on the 1st of June. In the midst of a pandemic against which they are frontline combatants, care workers in the Eastern Cape are still temporary workers.
Striking Zim nurses struck off July payroll
There seems not to be an end in sight for the ailing health system in Zimbabwe as the government takes a hardline against the strike.
Life stinks for East London township residents
Overflowing sewage pollutes numerous settlements around the Eastern Cape city and makes living there unbearable.
28-year-old mother of two without an ID
Tomase still has longer to wait for her ID document that will give her and her children access to a social grant or the covid-19 emergency relief grant as a cushion against their grinding poverty.
Nehawu in Eastern Cape plans strike to hire more health workers
NEHAWU in the Eastern Cape says it will use a 21st of August strike by health workers to force the department to hire more staff.
Photo essay – Working Class Day of Action
Civil society, community-based organisations, trade unions and activists protested in major cities and towns around the country to demand better living and working conditions.
“Working Class Day of Action” call for better living and working conditions
Protests around the country to mark the start of a national campaign by different organisations to build and connect community struggles against covid-19 and government austerity took place on Saturday, 1 August.
Violence against women rises under lockdown
According to gender activists, the lockdown due to covid-19 has tightened the grip abusers have over their victims at home.
Activists call for school closure for the year
Community organisations and activists that favoured the closure of schools differ over whether Grades seven and twelve should return to school in the Western Cape.
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