Temporary staff at schools hope for contract extension
Education assistants and school principals hope that the contract for education assistants gets extended as they are playing an important role in learning and teaching under Covid-19.
Cape Town
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.
Khayelitsha streets still littered with debris a week after protest
Two Khayelitsha based organisations accuse the City of Cape Town of discrimination in the way it provides services.
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
SAFTU slams “heavy handedness” of the police in Cape Town
The South African Federation of Trade Unions has condemned the excessive police deployment against the federation’s march in Cape Town in support of their national […]
Killings in Khayelitsha linked to extortion gangs
The police minister says that the killing of six men in Khayelitsha at the weekend is linked to extortion rackets.
Call to extend and increase Covid grant
The end of January marks the end of the Social Relief of Distress grant of R350, disbursed by Sassa, but civil society organisations have called for an extension.
SASSA beneficiaries defy curfew to get in front of the queue
Long snaking queues are still the order of the day at the social security agency, Sassa, after 302 days of lockdown in South Africa.
2020 review
To round off the year, here are just a few snippets of stories Elitsha overed this year.
Child and Youth centres in Khayelitsha starved of support amid pandemic
Children’s homes and youth centres worried about not having the access to food during the pandemic.
Go-Bet closure leaves 130 workers jobless
The union representing the Go-Bet workers says it wants the workers to be preferred creditors as the company still owes them their Covid relief money.
Community healthcare workers march for a minimum wage of R12,500
As the outcry by thousands of care workers whose bodies continue to be on the frontline against covid-19 gets louder around the country, their conditions of work remain unchanged.
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