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Building for a Better World: Khayelitsha's New Activist Centre
The new Isivivana Centre, a project of the Khayelitsha Youth and Community Centre Trust in South Africa, has its official opening Thursday, October 13. For more on the center, read the post below and see this video. Isivivana built to house organisations campaigning for social…
Author: GroundUp
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Resourcing Quality Education
By Sibongile Nkosi Winner Education AwardEqual Education The Khayelitsha–based Equal Education organisation began its work early in 2008 after a group of senior education activists, led by Zackie Achmat and Gauteng’s former minister for education, Mary Metcalfe, identified the lack of equal and quality education as…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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Study refutes claims patients stopping ARVs for grant money
Treatment Action Campaign is an Atlantic grantee. by JENNY GROSS ALTHOUGH there have been reports of Aids patients refusing life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to lower their blood counts enough to qualify for social grants, a three-year study in Khayelitsha found no evidence that people give…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Making and Living History
“Our grants, now completed, are like sown seeds which will bear the fruit of good works long after we turn out the lights at The Atlantic Philanthropies.” – Chuck Feeney Atlantic has been making and living our history lately. In December 2016, we made our…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Nine plead not guilty to fatal beating of gay woman
by FOUZIA VAN DER FORT All nine men accused of beating to death 19-year-old Zoliswa Nkonyana two years ago pleaded not guilty in the Khayelitsha Magistrate’s Court today. They also pleaded not guilty to at-tempting to murder two of Nkon-yana’s friends. Each shook his head…
Author: Cape Argus (South Africa)
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South Africa: TAC Protests Against Shortages of Life-Saving Drugs
BY MARY-ANNE GONTSANA “We demand accountable leadership”, “Failure to resolve stock-outs = human rights violation”, “Limpopo Department of Health – Failed promises” read placards at the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) march in solidarity with provinces that continue to be plagued by finding essential medicines are…
Author: All Africa
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Behind the scenes of school infrastructure victory
OPINION Doron Isaacs of Equal Education describes the organisation’s campaign that got the Minister of Basic Education to settle their court case last week. On Monday 12 November I was sitting in a meeting at Equal Education head office in Khayelitsha and noticed the red…
Author: Ground Up
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Social Justice Coalition and Corruption Watch Join Application to Intervene in Richard Mdluli Matter
SAPS Crime Intelligence boss Richard Mdluli. Corruption Watch (CW) and the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) have filed a joint application for leave to intervene as co-applicants in Part B of the matter of Freedom Under Law v National Director of Public Proseuctions, case No. 26912/2012…
Author: Social Justice Coalition
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South African Children Push for Better Schools
Equal Education is an Atlantic grantee. By CELIA W. DUGGER CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Thousands of children marched to City Hall this week in sensible black shoes, a stream of boys and girls from township schools across this seaside city that extended for blocks,…
Author: The New York Times
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Spit for money: SA's illegal trade in TB-infected saliva
Original Source Tuberculosis sufferers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, were found to be selling samples of their sputum to healthy people to pass off as their own in a scam to gain medical grants. An investigation by the West Cape News identified people with TB charging between R50…
Author: Guardian News and Media