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Hunger Is Driving KZN Women to Recycle for Food
Sandile Mbili
Five-year-old hands grip a small yellow hammer, crushing aluminium cans outside a small house in Embo, west of Durban. By the end of the day, Nokulunga Nkabinde hopes the bulging clear bag filled with cans will earn enough money to buy some vegetables, bread and a few eggs for her
After 8-Year Old Girl’s Alleged Sexual Assault at School, Family Says They Had to Navigate Support Alone
Lerato Kodisang
The grandparents of an 8-year-old Lenasia South girl in Gauteng claim they’ve had to navigate the medical, psychosocial and criminal justice systems alone in the days following the girl’s alleged rape by a security guard at her school. The family says this has become a second trauma. When their granddaughter
“Children Can’t Always Bathe” – Water Shortages Leave Musina Families Struggling With Basic Hygiene
Bernard Chiguvare
Geraldine Norton’s grandchildren do not always bathe before going to school. Instead, they wipe themselves with a cloth and wait for water to return. “The children cannot always bathe before going to school,” says the Limpopo grandmother, who has been registered on Musina Local Municipality’s indigent support programme more than
When Food Runs Short, Gogo Toti Goes Hungry so Grandchildren Can Eat
Siyabonga Kamnqa
On a chilly weekday morning, gogo Thozama Toti sits next to a stove, watching her granddaughter prepare a meal of noodles. Another grandchild waits patiently on a bed inside the dilapidated three-roomed mud house in Emaxelegwini informal settlement near Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape. The 68-year-old grandmother already knows the
US funding cuts threaten South Africa’s HIV response as global leaders warn of widening health system disruptions
Nthusang Lefafa
Decades of progress in the fight against HIV are at risk as funding cuts trigger global disruptions to health systems, leaving vulnerable communities with fewer services and placing the goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 increasingly out of reach. At this year’s 26th International AIDS
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The grandparents of an 8-year-old Lenasia South girl in Gauteng
Hunger Is Driving KZN Women to Recycle for Food
Five-year-old hands grip a small yellow hammer, crushing aluminium cans
“Children Can’t Always Bathe” – Water Shortages Leave Musina Families Struggling With Basic Hygiene
Geraldine Norton’s grandchildren do not always bathe before going to
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As the Gauteng Education Department faces a R27 billion backlog