‘Coke, stop guzzling our water!’
How is Coca Cola in Cape Town able to use over a million litres of water every day while poor households are having their water cut off, asks the Water Crisis Coalition
Kerry Cullinan
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When love hurts and there’s no money to help
It’s Valentine’s Day, but after years of abuse Jade is trying to make a life for herself and her four kids without a man. Meanwhile researchers puzzle about how to ensure that shelters – a crucial safe space in the fight against gender-based violence – are properly funded.
State is also ‘captured’ by incompetence
Twenty three years after South Africa’s first democratic elections, many Eastern Cape residents still live in dire poverty – held hostage as much by incompetent officials as corrupt ones. Is there any political will to turn the country’s poorest municipalities around?
Teen pregnancies down, TB cure up
Teen pregnancies have dropped, while our cure rate for tuberculosis (TB) is the highest in a decade.
Act ushers in April sugar levy
South Africans will start paying tax on sugary drinks from 1 April 2018, according to an Act gazetted yesterday.
Parliament finally passes sugary drinks tax
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) today passed the tax on sugary drinks, which is part of the Rates and Monetary Amounts and Revenue Law Amendment Bill.
Men missing in HIV fight, says SANAC CEO
Unless men start to behave responsibly, South Africa is facing a “runaway epidemic”, according Dr Sandile Buthelezi, new CEO of SA National AIDS Council (SANAC).
Public Works to evict rape support NGO
The national Department of Public Works wants to evict the Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Project (TVEP) from its rundown offices, despite the fact that it is the only organisation in Vhembe that provides services to people who have been raped and abused.
HIV negative sex workers find it hard to take ARVs
Despite being offered a daily pill to protect them from HIV, almost three-quarters of women sex workers had stopped taking the pills after a year.
Collision of HIV and NCDs
Elizabeth Meyer was first diagnosed with HIV in 2002, but has managed to keep the virus in check for many years and only started ARV treatment a couple of months ago. She is far more troubled by her diabetes and hypertension.
Health facilities fail rape survivors
Three-quarters of public health facilities designated to provide medical or forensic care for survivors of sexual violence, are unable to do so.
Politicians aid industry in dirty war over sugar tax
For over 18 months, the sugar and beverage industries have had the help of politicians to wage war against a proposed tax on sugary drinks in a microcosm of all that is rotten in this country. But the fight is not yet over.