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3 shelters for Joburg’s 15,000 homeless

10th November 2021 Chris Gilili 0

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

28th October 2021 Joseph Chirume 0

Sizwe Medical Aid in the experience of dissenting auto workers has failed to pay doctors’ bills and bankrupted members.

Eastern Cape Centane villagers go to court to try get clean water

22nd October 2021 Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 0

Three weeks since the court hearing on water provision to Centane, there is still no clean water in their taps.

TAC gives health minister and president ultimatum

19th October 2021 Chris Gilili 0

Amidst a pandemic and a healthcare system teetering on the brink of collapse, corruption in the department of health should be intolerable. TAC is demanding action.

No Sassa grants for careworkers in Gqeberha

18th October 2021 Joseph Chirume 0

The EC health department is accused of not opening vacancies for the permanent employment of community care workers.

TAC urges political parties to fix crippled healthcare system

15th October 2021 Chris Gilili 0

Healthcare staff shortages, broken clinic buildings and corruption top the problems observed by the TAC in the People’s Health Manifesto.

Kliptown residents threaten election boycott

30th September 2021 Chris Gilili 0

Filthy toilets, illegal electricity and dilapidated houses a sore point for residents of Vaalkamers.

Khayelitsha residents protest against overflowing sewage

29th September 2021 Vincent Lali 0

Residents of Site B in Khayelitsha protest the area’s sewer system while the City of Cape Town blames them for blockages and overflow.

Climate activists call for sustainable solutions

28th September 2021 Vincent Lali 0

Activists called for a change of leadership at the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, and for the capitalist economy to be uprooted.

For India’s stigmatised and exploited sanitation workers, the pandemic has only made conditions worse

21st September 2021 Equal Times 0

It is barely 5am and Borun Haari* is already out on the streets of Kolkata, pushing his waste handcart. A door-to-door garbage collector and street […]

Deep-sea mining: civil society sounds the alarm on the threat posed to biodiversity

20th September 2021 Equal Times 0

Sometimes referred to as the ‘oil of the 21st century’, metals such as nickel, cobalt and manganese are used to make the batteries that power […]

No end in sight to water crisis in Nelson Mandela Bay

17th September 2021 Joseph Chirume 0

Droughts are expected to become more frequent in southern Africa as climate change heralds extreme weather events globally.

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