So let me put this challenge to the Minister of Health, MECs and officials: Please go in your personal capacity – without the big car, protections officers and fancy clothes, and quietly sit for a while in the emergency rooms of our state hospitals. Then ask yourself if you are doing your job good enough.
Read MoreAccording to the report, Cape Town Councilor and Chief Whip Errol Anstey told fellow DA councilor Tandeka Gqada to go back to the Eastern Cape to get her lunch…I have to say, I actually gasped when I read this.
Read More“I give because I have more. I give because it could have been my high school sweetheart. I give because somewhere there is a mother hoping for some kindness from a stranger to her lost son or daughter. I give because that is what it means to be caring and compassionate.”
Read MoreNot only does Phathu Maqavana deserve some real credit for the effort he has put in over years to ban discrimination in the marketplace, but his suggestions could actually make a real difference in the battle for equal pay.
Read MoreA comment left by a reader on one of my columns a few weeks back got me wondering why people around the world still subscribe to the belief that there is a "natural" world order, with men at the top and women (and children) below them…
Read MoreThe high number of teenage pregnancies in Gauteng are indicative of the fact that there are clearly thousands of incidents of statutory rape of very young girls in South Africa - and very few prosecutions.
Read MoreLet there be no doubt, if all of the women in South Africa went on strike, the economy would collapse – not to talk about the chaos that would erupt in households.
Read MoreLet us remember the millions of babies who died unnecessarily from HIV, and let us now not allow millions of people in the developing world to die from COVID-19.
Read MoreSo as a country we are again having to face what the majority of South Africans and people in the developing world know all too well: Access depends on money.
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