World Food Day is a call to action for South Africa
Today is World Food Day. The day is celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in 1945 but in South Africa, a country with…
Statement: Northern Cape School closed without plan for learners
15 October 2014, Johannesburg - Khiba Junior Secondary School, a school serving 220, mostly poor learners in Ga-Mopedi Village in the JT Gaetsewe District of the Northern Cape has been closed without…
Statement: People’s Health Movement (SA) and SECTION27 call on the World Medical Association (WMA) General Assembly to urge the HPCSA to strike Dr. Wouter Basson from the medical register in South Africa
8 October 2014, The sentencing hearing of apartheid chemical and biological weapons mastermind, Dr. Wouter Basson, is now set down for the 26-29 November. In 2013 Basson was found guilty…
The unravelling of the human rights response to HIV and AIDS and why it happened: an activists’ perspective
Over the last 30 years, many aspects of the HIV response have been ‘exceptional’. One of the most remarkable has been the extent to which in theory, policy and (to…
Statement: Resounding victory for Dwenga and others in groundbreaking case challenging HIV discrimination in the South African National Defence Force
26 September 2014, Pretoria – Twenty years ago the then AIDS Law Project (ALP) wrote its first letter to the Minister of Defence and the South African National Defence Force (SANDF)…
CONFERENCE DECLARATION: MICHAEL KOMAPE NORMS & STANDARDS FOR SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE
We learners, parents, teachers, principals, government officials, members of social movements, civil society organisations, professional bodies and trade unions, ordinary citizens and community members have come together with one goal:…
TAC STATEMENT: After 36 Hours in Jail – All 127 Activists Have Been Released on Warning
After 36 Hours in Jail – All 127 Activists Have Been Released on Warning 11th JULY, BLOEMFONTEIN: The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) welcomes the release of the 127 activists and…
Civil society call on the authorities to free Community healthcare workers and TAC activists
Numerous organisations have come out in support of TAC activists and community healthcare workers arrested for staging a peaceful sit-in at Bophelo House, the headquarters of the Free State Provincial…
FREE STATE UPDATE: WE WILL NOT RETREAT!
10 JULY 2014, WE WILL NOT RETREAT! JOHANNESBURG – Over 150 Free State community health workers (CHWs) and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists, arrested during the early hours of Thursday,…
Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum Condemns the Arrest of over 100 Community Health Workers and Activists in the Free State
Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum Condemns the Arrest of over 100 Community Health Workers and Activists in the Free State The Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum (BEMF) condemns the arrest of over…
Timeline of crackdown on Free State activists & healthworkers
Timeline of crackdown on Free State activists & health workers This is a timeline of events over the last 24 hours of the Free State civil disobedience by activists and healthcare…
TAC PRESS STATEMENT: POLICE ARREST OVER 100 COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS AND ACTIVISTS STAGING PEACEFUL NIGHT VIGIL OUTSIDE FREE STATE HEALTH MEC’S OFFICE
Police arrest over 100 community health workers and activists staging peaceful night vigil outside Free State Health MECs office BLOEMFONTEIN, 10th July: Over 100 community healthcare workers and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)…