TAC protest outside Premier Makhura’s office continues
The TAC says they want to be part of the solution to save public healthcare in Gauteng from collapse.
Health
TAC demands action to save collapsing healthcare in Gauteng
The prolonged closure of Charlotte Maxeke Hospital during a pandemic has pushed the healthcare system closer to collapse.
Disabled people need special care to get vaccinated
With just over 7-million vaccines administered, physically disabled people feel that they have been left behind.
Informal traders decry lockdown, looting and lack of support from the City of Joburg
Workers in the Informal economy of Johannesburg say that the City has made things hard for them during lockdown.
Education department happy with vaccine rollout – even in Eastern Cape
The department of basic education in the Eastern Cape and nationally claims that Covid vaccination programme in the sector is going well.
Farming communities in E Cape struggle to adhere to Covid regulations
As Covid-19 rages on with residents not adhering to preventive measures, unemployment and poverty continue to plague small farming towns around the country.
Forty years on, the world is edging closer to eradicating HIV
The photo resembles many others that have been flooding the internet for months. A young man, leaning back in a chair, waits with the sleeve […]
Surviving lockdown as migrants living in SA
On Africa Day, migrants from the other parts of the continent based in South Africa talk about the hardships they continue to endure under Covid-19 and the lockdown.
Elderly people unsure about vaccination registration
To register the technologically illiterate among the elderly on the system, the health department is calling on the services of community health workers.
A year of lockdown in pictures
On day 378 of the national lockdown, Elitsha looks back at the past twelve months and the pictures we took.
“A year of trauma” – community careworkers
Community health workers keep on delivering services to communities against many odds, while burdened by the loss of colleagues to Covid-19.
Activists call for Johnson & Johnson to end ‘vaccine apartheid’
Johnson & Johnson does not see intellectual property as a barrier to Covid-19 treatments and vaccines
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