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Access to healthcare is highly inequitable; only 14.6% of the population is covered by medical aid, yet those individuals still face significant out-of-pocket costs, while the majority of the population suffers from a crumbling and inefficient system.
The feature in this issue focuses on the new era of tariffs from the Trump administration and their effects on South Africa.
The apartheid legacy of privilege and inequality in South Africa remains a benchmark.
Here in South Africa we see a state which fails to function at the most basic level. It fails to provide water, electricity, functioning sewage systems – the most fundamental utilities.
THABO BESTER NOT ONLY escaped from a privately owned, G4S prison; they neglected to tell us about it for nearly a year. In fact, they only “remembered” when GroundUp unearthed the story. In the UK, in 1989, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party privatised the supply...
By Samantha Enslin-Payne - 13 October 2010Government deal unsigned, labour leaders to seek new mandates today.The government's final wage offer to civil servants was not signed by the deadline yesterday as a majority could not be secured among the 19 public service...
8 September 2010The ANC said yesterday it was fully behind the government's determination to apply the "no work, no pay" rule to striking public sector workers - and has slammed Cosatu for being too "directly" involved in the bargaining process, instead of leaving the...
By Samantha Enslin-Payne and Bloomberg7 September 2010Unions have suspended the 20-day public service strike to consider the government's revised wage offer made last week, but they warned that this did not mean the offer had been accepted. Thobile Ntola, the...
By Terry Bell 3 September 2010Whatever the outcome of the current public sector dispute, it is perfectly clear that the overwhelming majority of public sector workers are bitter about the government; about the arrogance and incompetence displayed in the negotiations...