There are several people wearing reflective yellow jackets in the CBD of Johannesburg doing informal work. Karibu!spoke to Sipho Khoza from Ekurhuleni who guards cars for clients near Ghandi Square in the city centre. Khoza, 32, says he is in distress because of the…
Level 5 Lockdown Ban on non-essential travel reduces car-guard opportunities Read Post »
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used everyday by healthcare personnel and community healthcare workers (CHWs) to protect themselves when providing care. “PPE helps protect us from potentially infectious patients and other potentially dangerous substances used in health delivery,” said Sarah Mogotsi, …
Khutsong West Clinic fails to provide Personal Protective Equipment for CHWs Read Post »
Since the national lockdown began, many people face severe hunger as they struggle to make ends meet. So even though the food supply chain has not been affected according to Mrs. Thoko Didiza (Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development), many in our community are struggling to put food on the table…
Covid 19 lockdown: Lessons emerging from Waterdal Read Post »
Read about plagues, endemics, epidemics, pandemicsAnimal reservoirs, hosts and intermediatesblack rats, fleas, pigs, bats, cows, pangolins, camels, chickens, birds, civetsAnd the Connection?Commodity productionprofit-seekingwet markets, wild-life farming, monoculturemega-industrial farmingland grab….
Read About Plagues… Read Post »
In Carletonville on 1 April 2020, payment of child support social grants contravened many of the crowd prohibitions as stated by the President of South Africa and the Lockdown Regulations. SASSA announced on 26 March 2020, that it would pay social…
Queues outside shops, banks and post offices despite rules against overcrowding Read Post »
Monica Mahlangu of Khutsong, Ext 1, is a worried mother of two – a girl (15) and a boy (25) – because she feels parents cannot know whether their children are at risk of being badly affected by COVID-19. Speaking on this, Mahlangu told Karibu! that she does not “want to make assumptions about children…
“Lets help our children during COVID-19” Read Post »
COVID-19 is raging throughout the entire globe, and all politicians of the bourgeois establishment…
The South African state imposed a brutal lockdown without putting in place any effective social security and food protection for the masses. Obviously in this context the masses were going to starve and resist this starvation, and have resisted. Using the genuine frustration…
With the easing of the lockdown the ANC government is gambling with lives! Read Post »
On Saturday, 18 April 2020, I bought surgical face masks, costing R19.95 each, from Dis-Chem in Park Meadows. Then five days later on 23rd April I bought the same surgical face masks at Dis-Chem, but this time from the Eastgate…
Down with excessive pricing!! Read Post »
Since the lockdown began, African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) has been teaching reclaimers about COVID-19 and also giving out food parcels to them and other community members who are in need. ARO has two teams that are…
ARO give food parcels to reclaimers and the community Read Post »
Sarah Mohale is a 59-year-old woman reclaimer of recyclable materials. She stays in Block XX in Soshanguve (in Tshwane, Gauteng). Sarah has been doing this job since 1998, and has 22 years of experience working as a…
Reclaimers Hit Hard by COVID-19 Lockdown Read Post »
Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) are in a dangerous situation of being at risk of being infected by this Coronavirus. Many have been told by their Co-ordinators to work without having the proper equipment that they should be using…
A Dangerous Situation for Community Healthcare Workers Read Post »
