UAWU vow to intensify the strike for insourcing
The workers have been on strike for 2 weeks demanding to be insourced by the University of Cape Town.
Month: Aug 2019
No end in sight for N2 Express suspension
Commuters continue to suffer the lack of a safe, reliable and affordable public transport system.
Makhaza residents still waiting for own police station
Insecurity in Khayelitsha as police dawdle in their duties and leave the Neighbourhood Watch without support.
“We will continue until we win,” say the Turkish protesters taking on a major Canadian mining project
At a teahouse in the tiny village of Karaibrahimler in Turkey’s lush north-western Biga Peninsula, older male residents sitting at a table debate with young […]
Kuyasa market stalls remain closed after 10 years
Despite spending R180-million on the Kuyasa Interchange in 2008, the market stalls at the station have remained white elephants.
Small-scale farmers march for land and support
The small-scale farmers need common grazing lands to be opened by the municipality so that they can raise their livestock.
In the US, big banks are divesting from private prisons, thanks to anti-ICE activism
Major private prison firms CoreCivic and GEO Group stand to lose 72 percent — about US$1.9 billion — of their private financing as major banks […]
Workers strike for insourcing by UCT
A group of about 50 workers, working at UCT but employed by ‘service providers’, took part in a strike to be insourced by the university.
What’s behind the rise in defensive design?
When US$20,000 worth of studs were installed on the surface of a fountain in a downtown Toronto park in 2017, the upset felt by some […]
Ex-mineworkers march to Parliament on Marikana Day
Ex-mineworkers marched to demand transparency from government on the monies owed to them.
South Africa’s rape kit crisis
The shortage of rape kits at police stations around the country shows that the police are ill-equipped to combat violence against women.
How preschools can do more to support children living with HIV
Thanks to antiretroviral therapy, children living with HIV are likely to live much longer than they would without treatment. They will go to school like […]
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