The feature in this issue details the social crisis caused by the government’s neoliberal policies.
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The crisis of a nation betrayed
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address was an exercise in spin. The claim that South Africa is on a path to recovery contradicts a harsh and worsening reality.
“Every third child in Gaza stunted by hunger”: interview with renowned doctor Mads Gilbert | by Sami Kishawi
Dr. Mads Gilbert and a team of Palestinian surgeons prepare emergency treatment at al-Shifa hospital during Israel’s invasion of Gaza in January 2009. (NORWAC) For many people around the world, Israel’s three-week attack on the Gaza Strip in late 2008 and early 2009...
Social justice activist to the last breath | by Ashwin Desai
Cosmas Desmond One of the most compelling books on dispossession and forced removals is the late Cosmas Desmond’s The Discarded People. In the preface, Lord Caradon wrote: “This is a terrifying book. It is an account of callous contempt for human suffering, the...
Recovering from AIDS: Re-balancing social health priorities and practice | by Brian K. Murphy
‘Schmalhausen’s Law is a general principle that organisms in unusual or extreme conditions, at the boundary of their tolerance for any one aspect of their life conditions, are extremely sensitive to stressors in all aspects of their life conditions … A whole-system...
Recovering from AIDS: Re-balancing social health priorities and practice | by Brian K. Murphy
‘Schmalhausen’s Law is a general principle that organisms in unusual or extreme conditions, at the boundary of their tolerance for any one aspect of their life conditions, are extremely sensitive to stressors in all aspects of their life conditions … A whole-system...
‘Somalia on Verge of Worst Humanitarian Tragedy’ | by Yohannan Chemarapally
WAR torn Somalia faces yet another grave threat as the worst drought in decades devastates vast expanses of land in the Horn of Africa region. The other countries affected to a lesser extent are Ethiopia and Kenya. By early August, according to reports by...