The crisis in the care sector goes beyond economics; it is structural. This article argues that increased government spending on care jobs won’t address racial, political, and gender oppression.
The state of the nation’s care economy
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THE PROBLEM IS NOT WITH ‘FOREIGNERS’
The tragic deaths of the children and the suffering of informal mineworkers should unite South Africans in demanding systemic change rather than scapegoating vulnerable groups.
The struggle for health care: Caught in the large middle between being abandoned by the government, and rejected by private health
*This article is jointly published by Amandla! and the Daily Maverick A Puzzle Bad faith is involved when the billionaire President of South Africa and the ANC, who presides over the world’s most unequal country, dismisses the objections to the NHI Act on the basis...
THE NHI AND THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” - Martin Luther King SOUTH AFRICA SUFFERS FROM AN enormous burden of disease and ill health that affects all of us. It affects us as individuals. But it also affects us as a...
Media sensationalism, corporate power and the swine flu outbreak
4 May 2009 The handling of the swine flu outbreak underscores the difficulty, in the present political environment, of separating medical science from corporate interests and the political agendas of governments that are beholden to them. The matter has been both...