Muvhango Community In Bophelong Clean A Catchpit
… the Muvhango community in Bophelong (a township near Vanderbijlpark, south of Gauteng) cleaned up a catchpit in their area, led by a young man named Moshe Ngidi* (not his real name)…
Dismissed Workers Demand PRASA Insourcing
Former outsourced cleaners and security guards of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) held a protest action at Park Station, Johannesburg on 11 August 2020 where they were shot by the police…
Community Healthcare Workers Share COVID-19 Experiences
The People’s Health Movement South Africa hosted a webinar on 28 August titled ‘Our experiences in the fight against COVID-19’ where they untangled the issues affecting CHWs in this time of COVID-19…
MST encampment is violently evicted
In the early afternoon, police shot tear gas against the members of the encampment. According to the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), the houses and crops were destroyed several hours later…
COVID-19 in Waste Water according to Gauteng Water Report
The WRC study also states that “over 45% of the Gauteng population is living asymptomatic with the virus, as traces have shown from what has been picked up [in wastewater] by the sampling tests thus far”…
Feminists Raise Awareness about Gender Based Violence Through Posters
Jozi Book Fair (JBF) partnered with the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) to facilitate a workshop series about how to create posters that tackle Gender Based Violence (GBV). Poster making and art are ancient ways of communicating messages…
Gender Based Violence Awareness Campaign in Orange Farm
On Saturday, 29 August 2020, Orange Farm Police hosted a Gender Based Violence awareness campaign in Orange Farm, Sector 1. It was held in collaboration with organisations like Families South Africa (FAMSA),…
Learners Under Pressure To Finish Curriculum
Schools are battling to make up for the lost days while also managing the hostile environment under which they have come to operate. Learners are not used to learning in such an environment and this could result in an increase in the number of dropouts…
Safe Needles Provided for Drug Addicts
On 18 August, an organisation called Anova Health Institute visited the Palm Springs landfill site to provide voluntary HIV/AIDS testing for drug addicts that live around the area…
