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Covid numbers at Eastern Cape universities spike

4th Nov 2020 Mandla Mnyakama 0

The surge in numbers of students testing positive is a cause for concern for universities in the Eastern Cape.

Education department mum on youth pay

28th Oct 2020 Ramatamo Sehoai 0

School patrollers and covid-19 brigades say they have not been paid for the past three months.

Civil society demands extension and increase of COVID social relief grants

12th Oct 2020 Mzi Velapi 0

The organisations are also demanding that a comprehensive plan for a guaranteed basic income be put in place in the next national budget.

Zimbabwe teachers resume strike on first day of schools reopening

30th Sep 2020 Christopher Mahove 0

The Public Service Commission announced that all civil servants will receive a top-up on their salaries but it does not match teachers’ salary demand.

Bucket toilets not cleaned since April in East London informal settlement

21st Sep 2020 Mandla Mnyakama 0

The unhygienic situation is a sign of an uncaring government.

As well as missed opportunities, ‘Generation Corona’ is also grieving lost moments

27th Aug 2020 Equal Times 0

For Rebecca McKeon, a 19-year-old living in Wexford, Ireland, graduating from secondary school was a quick and rather uneventful experience. In mid-June, her school organised […]

E Cape care worker protest ends with job offer

19th Aug 2020 Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 0

Eastern Cape careworkers feel hopeful after meeting with the Department of Health.

Zim journalists petition President Mnangagwa

18th Aug 2020 Christopher Mahove 0

Media freedom is under threat in Zimbabwe under cover of lockdown regulations to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Community care workers still locked out of permanent jobs

17th Aug 2020 Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 0

The Eastern Cape Health Department assured care workers they would be signing permanent contracts on the 1st of June. In the midst of a pandemic against which they are frontline combatants, care workers in the Eastern Cape are still temporary workers.

Striking Zim nurses struck off July payroll

13th Aug 2020 Christopher Mahove 0

There seems not to be an end in sight for the ailing health system in Zimbabwe as the government takes a hardline against the strike.

Activists call for school closure for the year

29th Jul 2020 Vincent Lali 0

Community organisations and activists that favoured the closure of schools differ over whether Grades seven and twelve should return to school in the Western Cape.

Only one pit toilet for learners at Eastern Cape school

29th Jul 2020 Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 0

Despite government’s repeated promises to upgrade sanitation facilities in South African schools, pit toilets are all that is available to 200 learners at the school, and only one is usable.

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