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.
Health
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.
Eastern Cape Centane villagers go to court to try get clean water
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
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
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
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
Filthy toilets, illegal electricity and dilapidated houses a sore point for residents of Vaalkamers.
Khayelitsha residents protest against overflowing sewage
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
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
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
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 […]
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