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3 weeks ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tamsin Metelerkamp |Kristin Engel
CHILDREN IN CRISIS EXPLAINER South Africa’s child protection system is supposed to be a safety net for young people in danger. But when you listen to the people working in the sector, you hear the same story again and again – the net is full of holes and too many children are falling through.
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1 month ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tamsin Metelerkamp |Vincent Cruywagen
CHILDREN IN CRISIS As South Africa enters Child Protection Week, recent high-profile incidents of violence against children cast long shadows over advocacy efforts. For every such crime spotlighted by media or civil society organisations, many others appear to go unnoticed and unpunished. (Photo: City Press / Media 24 / Gallo)) As South Africa enters Child Protection Week, recent high-profile incidents of violence against children cast long shadows over advocacy efforts. For every such crime...
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1 month ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Siyabonga Goni |Tamsin Metelerkamp
BUDGET 3.0 In Budget 3.0, allocations for the health and education sectors have been cut down from those proposed in March.
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1 month ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Lerato Mutsila |Tamsin Metelerkamp
While Tiger Brands’ liability for the listeriosis outbreak in 2017/18 has yet to be determined in court, the food producer has agreed to settle certain claims in the long-running class action lawsuit linked to its now-closed Enterprise Foods facility in Polokwane, Limpopo.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Lerato Mutsila |Tamsin Metelerkamp
TRUMP 2.0 The termination of USAid funding for HIV programmes has led to mass job losses in the health sector. For some workers, being cut off from patients with urgent medical needs is as bad as facing unemployment. In just a few short weeks, thousands of South African health workers in HIV/Aids programmes funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) have had their lives and careers upended.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Lerato Mutsila |Tamsin Metelerkamp
TRUMP 2.0 Almost a month on from US President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing almost all foreign development assistance for 90 days, many key health HIV/AIDS programmes in South Africa have been unable to resume life-saving services for patients in need.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tamsin Metelerkamp
The Universal Healthcare Access Coalition has described the NHI Act as ‘unworkable’, stressing the need for pragmatic health system reform.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Lerato Mutsila |Naledi Sikhakhane |Tamsin Metelerkamp
SONA 2025 While some civil society organisations are cautiously optimistic about statements from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address 2025, a repeated refrain across a number of sectors was: ‘We’ve heard it all before’.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
bizcommunity.com | Tamsin Metelerkamp |Mongezi Mtati |Karabo Ledwaba
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Certain claimants in the listeriosis class action suit against Tiger Brands have been offered some relief, as Tiger Brands, Richard Spoor Inc and LHL Attorneys today announced they have reached an agreement for advance payments to those with urgent medical requirements. The case, meanwhile, continues.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tamsin Metelerkamp
SUMMER SNIFFLES EXPLAINER If you’ve been hit with a respiratory tract infection this festive season, it’s more likely to be Covid-19 than the flu. However, experts and officials say there’s no cause for alarm, as the circulation and severity of the virus remains low. Five years on from the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the hallmarks of the health crisis have all but disappeared — face masks, social distancing markings, hand sanitising stations.
