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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.

Ramaphosa residents demand foul jobs

16th September 2021 Vincent Lali 0

Residents of Ramaphosa informal settlement say they want the company contracted to clean their toilets to employ people on shorter term bases to make more jobs available.

Over 100 villages in Raymond Mhlaba without water

17th August 2021 Sandiso Phaliso 0

Villagers in Amathole District Municipality continue without water for months on end despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

TAC protest outside Premier Makhura’s office continues

13th August 2021 Chris Gilili 0

The TAC says they want to be part of the solution to save public healthcare in Gauteng from collapse.

TAC demands action to save collapsing healthcare in Gauteng

6th August 2021 Chris Gilili 0

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

29th July 2021 Ramatamo Sehoai 0

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

27th July 2021 Chris Gilili 0

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

26th July 2021 Mandla Mnyakama 0

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

3rd July 2021 Joseph Chirume 0

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

14th June 2021 Equal Times 0

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 […]

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