May Day Amidst COVID-19
Everyyear since 1889, workers across the globe have gathered in theirnumbers to celebrate Labour Day, the contribution of the workers insociety. This year has been unique and very different to most yearssince International Workers Day was first celebrated. In December2019, a new virus was first noticed in China’s Hubei province, andespecially around the city of Wuhan. Since then,…
Level 5 Lockdown Ban on non-essential travel reduces car-guard opportunities
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…
Khutsong West Clinic fails to provide Personal Protective Equipment for CHWs
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, …
Covid 19 lockdown: Lessons emerging from Waterdal
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…
Read About Plagues…
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….
Queues outside shops, banks and post offices despite rules against overcrowding
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…
“Lets help our children during COVID-19”
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…
Coronavirus Poem
Who am I?
What am I?
Where do I come from?
What do I want?
My name is Coronavirus
Some of you call me COVID-19…
Coronavirus and ‘race’ – Why the one’s most harshly affected by COVID-19 worldwide are disproportionately Black and Brown
COVID-19 is raging throughout the entire globe, and all politicians of the bourgeois establishment…
Building Solidarity in the Time of COVID-19
Khanya College Report – March 2020 Pandemics and natural disasters demonstrate clearly the social divisions, the social inequality, the quality of the political leadership of a country and the compassion in any society. COVID-19 or the coronavirus outbreak comes at a time when the working class in South Africa has been significantly…
