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.
Month: Jul 2021
The shrinking space for journalistic rights and freedoms in Palestine
“It was a Saturday, and the street was full of demonstrators. We were filming the events from a corner,” recalls Shatha Hammad, a 28-year-old Palestinian […]
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.
Commuters bemoan taxi violence as they struggle to get to work
Daily commuting in Cape Town has never been so dangerous. Eighty people have been killed this year, casualties in a turf war between taxi associations.
Nestlé settles with union to end strike
The acrimonious wage dispute was settled with a 4% increment with Nestlé.
Clinical waste collectors – unprotected, untrained, underpaid and undervalued
It was an accident that could have been avoided. While a waste collector was incinerating infectious waste at Connaught Hospital, Sierra Leone’s principal adult referral […]
Alex radio station trashed and looted
Small businesses have been decimated and food and energy security is in peril as civil unrest and looting continues in KZN and Gauteng.
PUDEMO calls for targeted sanctions against Mswati III
Pudemo calls on international solidarity groups to support economic sanctions against Mswati III.
The women of Sudan are pushing for a feminist agenda
On 8 April 2021, hundreds of women gathered in Khartoum to rally against domestic and gender-based violence in Sudan. In what has been described as […]
Gqeberha fishermen set off to catch squid after 2 year wait
A challenge by the South African Squid Management Industrial Association has been at the centre of the delay experienced by small-scale fishers in Gqeberha.
Nkandla style policing for all! – a call from activists
Civil society call for the police restraint and de-escalation shown in Nkandla be extended to all protesters.
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