In April 2012, the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDoH) put in place a moratorium on the appointment of healthcare workers to vacant posts at facilities throughout the province. This moratorium was instituted in an attempt to control the chronic overspending that was pushing the department deeper into financial crisis each year.
Daygan Eagar
Opinion | 11 September 2013
The failing healthcare system in the Eastern Cape affects everyone: urban communities, migrants from Gauteng and Cape Town too sick to work anymore or returning home to retire, and healthcare workers who donât have the medicines, equipment and a functioning referral system, to offer the care their patients need.
Marije Versteeg
Opinion | 11 September 2013
A Zimbabwean woman, Faith Muchina (not her real name), 48, claims that officials at the Cape Town Department of Home Affairs (DHA) intimidated her into changing her application for refugee status to cite economic and not political reasons. As a result she lost her asylum seekers status in October 2012 and is now illegally in the country. She has now been in the country for eight years.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 10 September 2013
Ikapa Dance Theatre is a non-profit arts organisation established in 2007 by Theo Ndindwa, Tanya Arshamian and founding member Mbulelo Ngubombini. The organisation focuses on identifying and developing talent among children from the townships around Cape Town.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 10 September 2013
An old container once used as a library could be brought back to life in Gugulethu. 100 books have already been donated.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 10 September 2013
Drug abuse harms the individual, their family, community and country. As the drug trade increased globally, to save people from themselves, in 1970, US president Richard Nixon launched the âwar on drugsâ.
JP van Niekerk
Opinion | 9 September 2013
Oscar Pistoriusâ bail application apparently showed how the justice system works when someone is arrested. But actually his hearing and release on bail were exceptional.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 5 September 2013
A South African study demonstrates for the "first time the effectiveness of male circumcision, in real-life conditions in curbing the spread of HIV", says its lead researcher, Bertran Auvert.
Michael Rautenbach
Brief | 5 September 2013
A demonstration framed âas a silent protest against racismâ held at Wits University on 28 August turned out to be anything but an embodiment of the principles of the anti-racism it espoused when a small group of the protesters sang âdubula e judaâ (shoot the Jew).
Heidi-Jane Esakov
Opinion | 4 September 2013
Natural gas extraction is being promoted as the solution to South Africa's energy crisis. Shell and other energy companies want to harness the untapped reserves of natural gas below the Karoo using fracking. This is meeting stiff opposition, particularly from residents of the Karoo who are concerned about the risks.
Kerry Gordon
Feature | 4 September 2013
Spaza music is an expression of black, urban, hip-hop music. It originated among the youth in townships around South Africa.
Pharie Sefali
News | 4 September 2013
With almost 53% of its youth unable to find work, South Africa is facing one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world, far higher than in comparable countries. While the International Labour Organisation (ILO) gives the youth unemployment rate as around 12% in sub-Saharan Africa and around 28% in North Africa, these high percentages are still far lower than they are in South Africa.
Nwabisa Pondoyi
Brief | 4 September 2013
âThe Arch soup kitchen was my second home. I feel sad that this is my last time to eat here. The loving, warm, dedicated staff, a guaranteed meal even when it is raining, makes the Arch unique from all other soup kitchens in Cape Town,â said Richard Thomas, a homeless man.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 3 September 2013
Staff at Walter Sisulu University (WSU) on a âno work, no payâ strike for six weeks have forced the university to close.
Nwabisa Pondoyi
Brief | 3 September 2013
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