South Africa’s health budget is failing to respond to the realities facing women, particularly those living in poor and rural communities. The public health system, which serves 84% of the population, operates within at least three overlapping pressures: high unemployment and poverty, persistent gender inequality, and the increasing impacts of Continue Reading
The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC) notes the tabling of the 2026 Division of Revenue Bill and the 2025/26 Special Appropriations by the Minister of Finance. ECHCAC members make this submission in their capacity as residents of Komani and the Eastern Cape more broadly. This submission is a Continue Reading
SECTION27, as part of the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC), has made submissions to the National Council of Provinces Committee on Appropriations on the Division of Revenue Amendment Act.
ECHCAC calls on the provincial and national health departments to urgently intervene before any more lives are lost. The Coalition urges the departments to act swiftly to avoid the situation degenerating to the state which occurred in the North
This week, we pay respect to South African Music Icon Mduduzi “Mandoza” Tshabalala who passed away yesterday after battling cancer. Mandoza’s music united South Africans, and allowed us all to be proud of our country. We were reminded that: “Indoda’ingawa namhlanje, Kusasa iphindi’vuke”. (A man may fall today, but he Continue Reading
On 14 June 2016, the Eastern Cape Health Action Crisis Coalition wrote to the South African Human Rights Commission in relation to the Eastern Cape Department of Health Response to the Commission’s report on Emergency Health Services in the province. We noted that on 1 April 2016, the Eastern Cape Department Continue Reading
A recently launched website unveiling the secrecy around the annual initiation rituals in the Eastern Cape has sparked a large outcry among sections of the Eastern Cape population, notably the Traditional Leadership. The website was launched by a health care provider after treating mutilated boys across several initiation seasons and Continue Reading
The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC) has released the second volume of their newsletter with updates on the state on healthcare in the province. It is titled Response to Eastern Cape Department of Health “Eastern Cape Health systems Interventions”. It contains the Coalition’s analysis of the ECDoH plan to fix Continue Reading
Read the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition’s analysis of the ‘Eastern Cape Health Systems Intervention’ which is being presented this morning to the Portfolio Committee on Health in Parliament here ECHCAC- response to ECDoH _Eastern Cape Heath Systems Interventions_ 5 November 2013 FINAL
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
The Keiskamma Trust, a community organisation that works with vulnerable groups in the Amatole region in the Eastern Cape has released a statement announcing that they are officially and publicly joining the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC). Please find the press statement attached. Keiskamma Joins ECHCAC press statement 24 October Continue Reading
EASTERN CAPE HEALTH CRISIS ACTION COALITION 15 October 2013 ECHCAC press statement: Request for a meeting with Premier, Provincial Government and the ANC following non-response from MEC Sicelo Gqobana EAST LONDON – The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC) resolved at a meeting yesterday to immediately write to the Continue Reading
