Young men and women led a march against gender-based violence on Saturday. The boxers of the Overstrand Whale Boxing Club led the march through the streets of Zwelihle with a large banner demanding an end to the murder of women and children. The Men Against Gender-Based Violence movement, led by OWBC coach Mzi Damesi, handed…
A Khayelitsha man was ripped from his bath and pushed into the spotlight during demolitions on Wednesday, revealing the only difference between evictions under apartheid and now is that there were phones to film the event, in which the man was completely dehumanised, writes Mikhail Moosa.Bulelani Qolani was bathing yesterday when he was forcefully removed from…
As with any societal plague, treatment and crisis response is not the answer to ending domestic violence. As a community, women must become proactive in their effort to prevent and eliminate GBV, writes Irene Charnley.Gender-based violence (GBV) cannot be attributed to a single factor. It is often an interplay of individual, community, economic, cultural and…
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. The tragic aspect of this story is that it underscores a fallacy that the ANC continues to perpetuate. Palestinian rights and statehood should not be about hatred for Jews and hatred towards Israel, writes Howard Feldman.Mostly, South Africans don't care. Their concerns remain centered around employment, the economy, crime, healthcare and education.…
Two weeks ago already, things were really bad here at Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth.They weren't collecting the waste, no one was cleaning and the nurses were also striking because they felt the working conditions were not safe. Even the kitchen wasn't working.LIVE | All the latest coronavirus and lockdown updatesWe had to port patients.…
2 min read ONE THING I appreciate about Mack Weldon is that the brand doesn’t limit itself to just one category of menswear. Sure, it makes some of the best underwear we’ve ever tested, but that’s only scratching the surface. From everyday T-shirts and henleys to cozy sweaters, outerwear, workout gear, and accessories, it’s practically
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared an end to a dual outbreak of E. coli and Salmonella traced to alfalfa sprouts and the seeds used to grow them. The outbreak traced to Everything Sprouts of Minneapolis, MN, and Berlin Seeds of Millersburg, OH, was unusual because it included more than one pathogen
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food