Statement by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Statement on the Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Introduction 1. The Covid-19 pandemic is threatening to overwhelm public health care systems, and is having devastating impacts across the world on all spheres of life – Continue Reading
Much has been said about the potential cost of National Health Insurance (NHI) to the fiscus. In most cases, alarm bells have been rung warning that the scheme to transform health care in SA is simply unaffordable in our current economic and political climate. But what do we actually know Continue Reading
SECTION27 welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the case of Komape v Minister of Basic Education and Others. The judgment of the SCA awards damages for emotional shock and grief to each member of the Komape family to the total value of R1,4 million as Continue Reading
Our week ahead 18- 22 March 2019 “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday, March 18 Members of the SECTION27 health team, Sasha Stevenson, Thuthukile Mbatha, Paul Wasswa and Continue Reading
On 19 March 2018, retired Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke read out the order in the Life Esidimeni alternative dispute resolution. In it he ordered the State to pay R180,000 in damages for emotional shock and trauma and R20,000 as part of funeral
Jodie Jacobs reports on the Limpopo Textbook saga, with Mark Heywood and Penyaza Lesufi. E News television broadcast on 28-06-2012.