Challenges at Schools During COVID-19
As schools reopened for all grades, some schools are struggling with space and the structuring of classes. This has caused a confusion for other learners in other schools…
Woman Mugged Outside Eden Park Clinic
On Wednesday 9 September, a woman carrying a six-week-old baby was mugged just as she appeared from a passageway to join the queue outside Eden Park Clinic, Alberton (East of Gauteng)…
Illegal Chrome Miners
Chrome is one of the minerals mined in the Limpopo province. As a result, the communities of Maandagshoek, Mooihoek and Balotjaneng (both in Limpopo) experience land destruction as illegal chrome mining takes place in their areas…
The Rise of Allende
Fifty years ago [on 4 September 1970], Salvador Allende was elected president of Chile. His thousand days in office raised the hopes of millions in Chile, enacting policies to nationalise industries, expand education and empower workers…
New HIV Self-Screening And Testing Tools
On 13 and 14 August 2020, different groups of Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) were taken in for training for the new HIV self-screening and testing tools which took place at Bekkersdal Clinic, Westonaria on the Westrand of Johannesburg…
Unpaid CHWs Given The Run-Around
8 000 Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) have been insourced by Department of Health (DoH) in Gauteng in July 2020, but after two months not all of them have gotten their salaries,..
Tensions between the Community and ELM Workers in Bophelong
Tensions flared up in Muvhango Extension Bophelong (a township near Vanderbijlpark, south of Gauteng) recently resulting in an Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM) electricity team of workers fleeing the area…
SANDF Fail to Shut Down Party in Daveyton
On 5 September there was a big party that took place in Daveyton. “I was part of the crowd and experienced everything. I was at the well-known Chisa Nyama in Daveyton and it was packed…
Rethabiseng Residents Abandoned by Municipality
Rethabiseng, Proper Section (East of Pretoria) residents have had a water crisis since April 2020. Residents have to go to another section to get water or run after the water tank, and if you don’t have a wheel borrow it’s hard to collect water…
