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Press Alert: Limpopo textbooks case to be heard on 22 and 23 April at the North Gauteng High Court
16 April 2014 Johannesburg – The Limpopo textbooks case will be heard on 22 and 23 April in the North Gauteng High Court before Judge Tuchten who had previously presided over the urgent application. The case was brought by Better Education For All (BEFA) and 18 schools seeking to compel the National Department of Continue Reading
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PRESS STATEMENT: BACK TO COURT FOR LIMPOPO SCHOOLS
31 MARCH 2014 (JOHANNESBURG) – Almost two years after the watershed North Gauteng High Court ruling on 17 May 2012, ordering Government to ensure full delivery of textbooks to schools in Limpopo, Government will once again be compelled to explain a failure to fully deliver textbooks, this time to 39 Limpopo schools. Continue Reading
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TAC and SECTION27 joint statement: NHLS oversight in crisis – Patients Pay the Price
26 March 2014 TAC and SECTION27 call on the Minister of Health to urgently bring an end to the financial woes facing the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS). The continued year-on-year delayed and non-payment by Gauteng and Kwazulu-Natal speaks to a failure of governance and oversight on the part of Continue Reading
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SECTION27 brief media on sanitation and infrastructure crisis in Limpopo schools
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]SECTION27 held a press conference today, 30th of January about the sanitation and infrastructure crisis in Limpopo schools. The press conference highlighted the outcomes of the productive meeting with the Deputy Minister of Basic Education (DBE). SECTION27 and the DBE agreed to work constructively together wherever possible to tackle these Continue Reading
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SECTION27 calls for urgent action to deal with sanitation in schools
SECTION27 notes with great regret and outrage the death of a Grade R learner who fell into a pit toilet in Mahlodumela Primary School in Chebeng Village, Limpopo on Monday 20 January 2014. We extend our condolences to his family and community. This death was avoidable and highlights the unsafe Continue Reading
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SECTION27 condemns Big Pharma’s plans to undermine the Draft Intellectual Property policy process
SECTION27 condemns the action taken by pharmaceutical companies to undermine the Draft Intellectual Property Policy process that is currently underway in South Africa. SECTION27, together with its partners has been calling for reforms to the IP regime in line with the constitutional right to health care services for many years. The DTI’s Continue Reading
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Press Statement: SECTION27 WELCOMES THE RELEASE OF THE FINAL TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE COMPETITION COMMISSION’S HEALTH INQUIRY
SECTION27 WELCOMES THE RELEASE OF THE FINAL TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE COMPETITION COMMISSION’S HEALTH INQUIRY Introduction On Friday, 29 November 2013, the Competition Commission published the Final Terms of Reference for the inquiry into the private health sector (TOR). The publishing of this document follows from a period of Continue Reading
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TAC and SECTION27 joint statement re: the World AIDS Day protest march and plans to fix health services in Gert Sibande
TAC and SECTION27 joint statement re: the World AIDS Day protest march and plans to fix health services in Gert Sibande World AIDS Day is a very important day internationally. The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and SECTION27 respect the dignity of the day and the decision of SANAC and the Continue Reading
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Making Budgets Public – 2013/2014 National Health Insurance Business Plans
The National Department of Health published the National Health Insurance (NHI) business plans for the NHI pilot districts for the 2012/13 financial year. However, to date, the National Department of Health has not made the 2013/14 business plans publicly available. SECTION27 calls on the Department to follow the example it set in Continue Reading
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TAC calls on SANAC to condemn and investigate intimidation of its leaders in the Free State
TAC calls on SANAC to condemn and investigate intimidation of its leaders in the Free State – will write to the ANC to complain about deaths threats to several provincial leaders 18 December 2013 In recent months the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has campaigned to draw attention to serious problems in Continue Reading
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Statement: Department of Basic Education and SECTION27 find common ground on Tshinavhe Secondary School Nutrition Programme
Department of Basic Education and SECTION27 find common ground on Tshinavhe Secondary School Nutrition Programme The Department of Basic Education (DBE) and SECTION27 have reached an agreement that will see the immediate restoration of the School feeding programme at Tshinavhe Secondary School in Limpopo. The School Governing Body approached SECTION27 Continue Reading
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SECTION27 Press statement: Learners at Tshinavhe Secondary School without school meals for two months
SECTION27 Press statement: Learners at Tshinavhe Secondary School without school meals for over two months 342 learners at Tshinavhe Secondary School in the Vhuronga 2 Circuit of the Vhembe District in Limpopo have not had a meal at school since the mid September. The School Governing Body of Tshinavhe Secondary Continue Reading
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Activist Dialogue invite: The right to protest
Friends of SECTION27 hosts activist dialogues every fortnight discussing topical issues. This week we invite you to a dialogue on the right to protest. This pivotal right has increasingly come under threat in South Africa through political and police repression. SECTION27 tackles this issue with Simon Delaney, an attorney and Continue Reading
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SECTION27 PRESS RELEASE IN RESPONSE TO THE MINISTER OF HEALTH’S BRIEFING TO PARLIAMENT TODAY RE: THE EASTERN CAPE HEALTH CRISIS
CAPE TOWN – National health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and newly appointed Head of the Eastern Cape health department Dr Thobile Mbengashe today addressed the Portfolio Committee on Health regarding plans to address the crisis in the province. Committee chair Mr Bevan Goqwana acknowledged that the briefing had been called Continue Reading
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PUBLIC INVITE: FIX THE PATENT LAWS CAMPAIGN
PUBLIC INVITE: FIX THE PATENT LAWS CAMPAIGN THURSDAY 17 OCT – SUNNYPARK, PRETORIA Activists will demand South Africa stops blindly handing out drug patents. PRESS CONFERENCE (10:30am) Holiday Inn, Sunnypark PUBLIC ACTION & RALLY (11:30am onwards) from Burgers Park to DTI campus Meintjies Street WHAT: The Fix the Patent Laws campaign – run Continue Reading