2023: The wrap
A summary of stories reported by Elitsha this year.
Health
KDF wants shack dwellers gone to make way for a private hospital
The residents of an informal settlement near Khayelitsha Mall say they won’t move to make way for a private hospital but demand basic services instead.
Gugulethu residents march for access and better healthcare facilities
The protestors demand the building of a district hospital in Gugulethu as the day hospital is not adequately equipped.
Toilet cleaning extortion attempts leave TR section in a stinky situation
Residents of TR section say they have to deal with maggots and faeces smell everywhere ever since the cleaning and collecting of buckets was suspended in October due to extortion gangs.
Goedverwacht community fed up with Moravian Church
Goedverwatch community tell of bad service delivery from the Moravian Church of South Africa.
Khayelitsha clinics equipped for eye screening
The official launch of these services took place in Khayelitsha, Michael Mapongwana clinic, but they are also available in other areas such as Mfuleni and Nolungile clinic in Site C.
Sexual violence in schools is worse than reported – report
By Stats SA estimates, 1 in 5 children are victims of sexual violence while the Western Cape education department says there have only been five reported cases at schools in the province so far this year.
Parents of Enyobeni victims hope inquest will bring answers
While results of toxiciology reports have not been made public nor shared with the parents of the teenagers who died in Enyobeni Tavern, they doubt the stated cause of their death as suffocation.
Taxi strike closes five hospitals
The taxi protest in the Western Cape has shuttered clinics at the same time as the number of people needing treatment for violent injury has spiked.
Community health workers belong in the public sector!
Unions claim that the labour department is doing the health department’s bidding by proposing to remove community health workers from the public health bargaining council.
Family feud closes Mandela Park rehab
The death of the rehab centre’s founder broke open divisions between his two wives over how the unregistered rehab centre will continue as an organisation.
The decades-long legal struggle of Taiwanese electronics workers
In the late 1960s, the authoritarian government of Chiang Kai-shek invited the US firm Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to transfer part of its television […]
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