Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by GROOME Michelle J., PULLIAM Juliet, SILAL Sheetal
Repeated resurgences of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are expected in the years to come.
Confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been increasing in South Africa in recent weeks. This has been largely driven by two offspring – known as the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages – of the Omicron variant first identified (...)
, by CAIRNCROSS Lydia, HASSAN Fatima
At the end of February, ILRIG held a webinar on the issue of Covid vaccines. Two of the speakers were Fatima Hassan, Director of the Health Justice Initiative, and Lydia Cairncross, a medical doctor and health activist with the People’s Health Movement. Fatima spoke mainly on the general (...)
, by MOODLEY Keymanthri , ROSSOUW Theresa
COVID-19 vaccine supplies are available in various parts of the world. But it’s clear that distribution is not symmetrical. High-income countries have access to disproportionate quantities of limited supplies. Vaccine nationalism, stockpiling and profit-driven strategies of global pharmaceutical (...)
, by DESAI Rehad
We are in the middle of a global shortage of supplies of Covid-19 vaccines. We are reliving the saga that happened early in the pandemic around access to PPE, where each country fought for its own patch. Getting the vaccine doses we require for South African healthcare workers is the most we (...)
, by BAM Bonile
Jobless people in the country’s most impoverished province join the growing social grant queues before dawn on empty stomachs, having run out of food for the month.
24 October 2020: Eastern Cape resident Esihle Xelo, who hails from Mqanduli, sits on Durham Street outside the Mthatha Post (...)
, by FOGEL Benjamin
What exactly did South Africa’s government do with the time they gained through the two-month COVID-19 lockdown, except to brutalize its people?
South Africa has imposed one of the world’s most draconian COVID-19 lockdowns, slapping hundreds of thousands of mostly black and working-class people (...)
, by Writers’ Community Action Network
An emerging movement of self-organized, decentralized community action networks responds to the local realities of COVID-19 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Cape Town is a city of stark inequality, with a dark and thorny history of colonial- and apartheid-era oppression, bleeding into rampant (...)
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union’s (AMCU) struggle for worker safety during the scourge of Covid-19 in the South African mining sector.
During late February when it became clear that the novel Covid-19 coronavirus was going to hit South African shores, we immediately (...)
, by BOND Patrick
South Africa has the highest number of coronavirus infections in Africa, topping 1200 as of March 30, including the second Covid-19 fatality. More than twenty-five years after the ANC’s triumph and Nelson Mandela’s election, how well-prepared is post-apartheid capitalism to confront the (...)
, by BOND Patrick
South Africa has the highest number of coronavirus infections in Africa , topping 1200 as of March 30, including the second Covid-19 fatality. More than twenty-five years after the ANC’s triumph and Nelson Mandela’s election, how well-prepared is post-apartheid capitalism to confront the (...)
, by SAFTU
This statement was published by the South African Federation of Trade Unions and is republished by No Borders News as part of their ongoing international coronavirus coverage.
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The anti-viral lockdown is a social-distancing start – but fiscal stinginess and tight monetary policy (...)
We, as civic organisations, trade unions, organisations of informal workers, faith-based organisations and community structures in South Africa, call on all people, every stakeholder and sector, to contain the infection, reduce transmission and mitigate the social and political impacts of the (...)
, by CHIRWA Andrew
Andrew Chirwa is the president of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). This statement was issued today as Covid-19 infections in South Africa continued to rise and raises criticisms of President Cryil Ramaphosa of the African National Congress. NUMSA’s workers were in the (...)
, by Khanya Forum
A meeting was held on 14 March by Khanya College at the House of Movements to discuss the coming pandemic of coronavirus. In attendance at this meeting were health care worker activists from the Gauteng Community Health Care Forum, waste picker activists from African Reclaimers Organisation and (...)
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