by Yollander Millin Internally displaced children in Bulawayo have in the month of October begun benefiting from the engagement of civil society organizations and other non governmental organisations (NGOs) that have stepped up to...
by Yollander Millin Internally displaced children in Bulawayo have in the month of October begun benefiting from the engagement of civil society organizations and other non governmental organisations (NGOs) that have stepped up to address the rise in food insecurity and malnutrition. The initiative came about as a reaction...
No one planned or was ready for such a distraction caused by covid 19, these has also changed the minds of many people, has killed 2020 plans that people had. Poor people are the most troubled and unemployment became actively more with covid 19 presence in our lives. Covid...
Whilst the lock down is slowly eased I’ve seen that people can do anything to survive even if it means robbing others. I have also realized that some of the police officials are corrupt taking bribes from illegal gamblers. Gamblers are a group of people who stand on street...
by Rapule Moiloa A community waste land that lied for many years behind shops in Palm Springs in the Vaal is being successfully put into good use to ensure food security during lockdown as it has been turned into a vegetable garden. This piece of land used to be...
by Rapule Moiloa in Tembisa Vusimuzi Since the start of the locked down, I have realised that children play every where with no problem at all. To my surprise yesterday morning I witnessed three kids between the ages of 9 and 14 moving door to door selling tissues and...
by Rapule Moiloa in Soweto Lock down did not happen because it was supposed to but it was due to an unforeseen virus that left many people jobless, with out food and caused people’s lives to be on standstill. People who thought of the poor not just about themselves...
The 6th of May was the last day of the SASSA pay outs.The roads were so packed and there was too much chaos due to people and traffic congestion. The scary part about this was that nobody seemed to be caring about the spread of COVID-19 as some of...
By Concerned Resident I have been talking to people i know in Diepkloof And Reverlea with regards to the current situation since lock down. Many confessed that hunger is the major problem since many people last worked before the lock down was announced. There were however challenges associated with...
by Thamie Mokoena…For the community of Bramfisher in Soweto it is business as usual as people move around as if life is normal and as if the country is not on lock down due to the virus. Yesterday some one was using a whistle to call people out side...
By Dorothy Mabelebele Due to COVID-19, South Africans are urged to stay at home during the lockdown. On the 9th of April 2020 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the extension of lockdown to end of April. President Ramaphosa pleaded with South Africans to make even greater sacrifices...