Court orders WCED to find schools for all unplaced learners
Victory for Equal Education, parents and learners as High Court orders Western Cape Education to place learners within 10 days.
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Residents slam ‘dismal’ Western Cape health budget
Community stakeholders at a health budget indaba demanded better and quality healthcare while the provincial health department blamed high population numbers for the inadequate budget.
Migrants in South Africa have access to healthcare: why it’s kicking up a storm
A political storm has erupted in South Africa after a video went viral showing the health minister for the Limpopo province – which borders Zimbabwe – berating a Zimbabwean woman who was seeking healthcare. Responses have been divided. Some have called for Phophi Ramathuba to step down on the grounds that verbally abusing a patient was out of order. Others have supported her, saying she reflects the sentiments of South Africans living in the area. The Conversation Africa spoke to Kudakwashe Vanyoro, who has done research on the treatment of migrants in South Africa’s healthcare sector, to unpack the issue.
Activists adamant against seismic survey of EC coast by Shell
The outcry against plans for an offshore seismic survey by Shell on the Eastern Cape coast is growing.
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 […]
Zimbabwe launches National Labour Migration Policy to help protect migrant workers
Although there is no reliable data, with an estimated 4 to 7 million people living outside of the country, Zimbabwe has one of the highest […]
Evicted in the midst of a pandemic: Belgium’s housing crisis
Florence has been living in Brussels since 2009 and has spent the last three years in social housing in the municipality of Schaarbeek. A few […]
On the road with Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa beans
It’s 8.40pm. A strong wind blows across the dark night sky, whistling through the large trees that protrude from the canopy formed by cocoa trees. […]
With poverty rates on the rise, eradicating child labour in Lebanon is proving ever more complicated
On roaming through the winding alleyways of Tripoli’s old city and its maze-like souk, it is not unusual to see children pushing wheelbarrows with boxes […]
Central African refugees are caught between a rock and hard place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
It is 4pm on a February day in 2021. A woman is busy in a makeshift kitchen, nestled between a brick house and a large […]
Is the Jamaican government giving BPO investors the “green light to disregard labour laws”?
With tens of thousands of jobs linked to the tourism sector lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Jamaican government has heralded the island’s fast-expanding […]
In Ecuador, abaca workers are demanding justice and an end to 60 years of modern-day slavery
In December 2003, after 30 years spent labouring on an abaca plantation, Susana Quiñonez finally summoned the courage to demand better working conditions from her […]
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