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1 week ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Stephen Devereux |Busiso Moyo |Mark Heywood
WORLD HUNGER DAY The vision for World Hunger Day 2030 is a world where no person lacks access to adequate nutritious food.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Mark Heywood
COLLAPSE OF COMPASSION OP-ED A Palestinian boy waits with a bag of possessions as he returns home following the start of a ceasefire, in Rafah, southern Gaza, on 19 January 2025. (Photo: Ahmad Salem / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Because our flat screens don’t spill blood, don’t emit the stench of death, muffle the piercing cries of real loss, leave the scene of the crime, we are led to think that pain is painless. In this way those of us who are safe for the moment insulate and inoculate...
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1 month ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Mark Heywood
Unlike many activists, Bob Nameng had never left his community, despite the ample opportunities that come to someone with his charisma and spirit. He realised that escaping poverty often meant escaping the poor, leaving people to the elements of poverty. For him, people’s power was not a slogan, but a mission that could be practised every day.
“The father of Kliptown”, Soweto, Bob Nameng (1 July 1970-19 April 2025), is no more.
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1 month ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Mark Heywood
THE WORLD IN AFRICA In a series of articles, experts from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town will this week provide an overview of the key themes and issues to be discussed in more than 140 major official meetings until the G20 Summit in November 2025.
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2 months ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Mark Heywood
HEALTHCARE DECLINE OP-ED Urgent action and investment to bring about improvements to South Africa’s declining state of health and health systems are needed now. But tragically, this is not happening because for more than a decade, health reform has been paralysed by the polarisation between those who believe ‘NHI must die’ and those for whom it’s ‘NHI or die’. We need a change of mindset now. Significantly increased spending on health will also bring about economic benefits.
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2 months ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Jennie Godfrey |Geraldine Brooks |Mark Heywood
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE Thinking back on the books I had read during 2024 I was struck by patterns I hadn’t noticed at the time I read them. I found books talking to each other, whether their authors intended it, or not. Theme clouds formed. Ideas and plots riffed off each other. Why? How? Perhaps there’s a book sprite that guides us, as we dither undecided at a bookshop, towards books that connect meaning to life.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Mark Heywood
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE We need to read good literature to help us once again find connection with one another. Tragically, we have been desensitised and dehumanised by the ceaseless exposure to what is abnormal in human relations, real and imagined violence that comes at us through our screens. In fact, we no longer even register many of today’s horrors as abnormal. One of my happiest recent discoveries in contemporary fiction has been the novels of Irish writer Sally Rooney.
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Salomé Meyer |Mark Heywood
Last week, another World Cancer Day came and went. It is globally commemorated each year on 4 February. This year the Union for International Cancer Control, a global organisation with more than 1,000 members in 170 countries, launched its advocacy campaign, United by Unique, to focus on people-centred care. This theme resonates with the priorities of South Africa’s Cancer Alliance, as our focus is on promoting equitable and timely diagnosis and care of cancer for all. Don't want to see this?
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Mark Heywood
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE On 6 February 1945, a star was born. In the Parish of St Anne’s in a village named Nine Mile in the mountains of central Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley was born to Cedella Malcom Booker and an already absent father, plantation manager Norval Sinclair Marley.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
allafrica.com | Mark Heywood
The death of up to 100 miners at Stilfontein reflects a callous and couldn't-care-less attitude that has developed in the government, and sadly throughout much of society (white and black). It is that the desperately poor are disposable and not deserving of life and dignity.
