Monday, 27 March 2023
Nation Nyoka writes with the hope of effecting social change in the interests of the marginalised. Social justice, politics and the advancement of the African continent and her people are high on her agenda.
The low-grade form of heroin continues to strip the youth of their future and the young women living in a drug house in Ekurhuleni say the police do not take them seriously.
Often, as soon as male relatives die, single or widowed Kenyan women are accused of witchcraft and killed by conspiring people who then take the land on which their victims lived.
The Johannesburg hospital has started reopening as the fire damage is repaired but delays, security issues and dubious health and safety compliance are affecting staff retention.
Though a moratorium on evictions has been extended in Brazil, families still face forced removals. Activists are fighting for the right to land amid increasing precarity.
There is a chronic shortage of staff at Baragwanath training hospital and patient care is declining, yet the provincial government is letting hundreds of temporary Covid workers go.
The blame for the fire at Charlotte Maxeke hospital and the delays in refurbishing and reopening its damaged sections has been placed squarely at the feet of the provincial government.
The proposed project in the Democratic Republic of Congo is likely to create more impoverished and displaced communities while serving the interests of private capital and the political elite.
Six years after the negligence of public healthcare officials led to tragedy for the families of frail patients, the mental health system continues to be weak and insufficient.
The latest crime statistics show that more than 900 women in South Africa were killed in just three months. Activists say a holistic approach is needed to halt these murders.
Facing violence, detention and death under military control, protesters are organising in localised and sectoral resistance committees calling for and conceiving a shift to civilian rule.
Almost four years after Judge Dikgang Moseneke lambasted the state, new information is coming to light and highlighting the lack of progress in mental healthcare in South Africa.
The African nation celebrated 66 years of independence from British rule on 1 January, but it has been stuck in an endless cycle of coups, dictatorships, revolutions and transitions.
Uncertainty persists as the strife-torn East African country stumbles towards a fragile accord between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front in the north and the federal government.
The coup on 25 October inflamed already rising tensions in the Horn of Africa, with the military assaulting and shooting demonstrators at mass rallies calling for a democratic government.
Despite it being all about local government, many residents in Etwatwa on the East Rand did not know who their ward councillor candidates were. Instead they voted for a party they felt they at least knew.
Few things have changed for a community in Ekurhuleni who occupied homes almost two years ago, and the residents feel neglected by councillors in the run-up to elections.
In parts of Gabon, a shack settlement outside Etwatwa, Gauteng, residents continue to fight for houses and electricity because none of the development they see elsewhere is reaching them.
Some residents are resigned to voting in the municipal elections on the slim chance that it changes their circumstances, others are undecided and those without identity documents feel hopeless.
Njengokuba uMzantsi Afrika ujonge kunyulo loorhulumente basekhaya ngomhla wokuqala KweyeNkanga (Novemba), abahlali abangonwabanga koomaspala abambaxa iTshwane nase-Ekurhuleni bathi abanasizathu sisiso sakuvota.
As South Africa gears up for the local government elections on 1 November, disgruntled voters in Tshwane and Ekurhuleni say they have little reason to cast their ballots.
The regional body has essentially ignored the plight of emaSwati who continue to suffer under the brutal reign of King Mswati III, activists say.