Period poverty ruins education for girls in rural Zimbabwe
A recent survey revealed that the use of old clothes, leaves and cow dung instead of sanitary ware is prevalent among rural girls in Zimbabwe.
Health
No funds to re-employ EC Covid-19 healthcare workers
With the end of the national state of disaster, the disastrous state of healthcare in the Eastern Cape as elsewhere in South Africa, continues.
EC health workers demand re-employment
Healthcare workers came from across the province to take their demand for re-employment to the office of the Eastern Cape health MEC in Bhisho. The premier and the MEC were away in East London so the memorandum of demands will be in their in-trays on Monday.
Photos: Unemployed marched to parliament
The unemployed say that the Covid-19 social relief grant of R350 does not meet their basic needs.
Unemployed march to Parliament demanding jobs
Unemployed youth and marginalised groups marched to Parliament to deliver an “alternative budget speech” on Wednesday.
2021 – The wrap
These are some of the stories we brought you in 2021. Expect more to follow in 2022.
Labour unions march against ailing healthcare services
Unions march for better working conditions and healthcare services in Nelson Mandela Bay and Sarah Baartman District Municipality.
Activists adamant against seismic survey of EC coast by Shell
The outcry against plans for an offshore seismic survey by Shell on the Eastern Cape coast is growing.
Gauteng premier urged to intervene in cancer patients crisis
As the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic, cancer patients and activists say that over 2,000 patients in Gauteng are still waiting for cancer treatment.
Joburg waste pickers decry abuse while making ends meet
Wastepickers get no help nor recognition from the City of Johannesburg which seems to try to take their livelihoods away from them.
3 shelters for Joburg’s 15,000 homeless
Homeless people complain that they cannot afford the R8 entry fee charged at the Kotze Street shelter which belongs to the City of Johannesburg.
Numsa members want no deal with Sizwe Medical Aid
Sizwe Medical Aid in the experience of dissenting auto workers has failed to pay doctors’ bills and bankrupted members.
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