This week, SECTION27 Remembers Marikana. We Remember 16 August 2012 when the South African Police Service opened fire on a crowd of mineworkers at Marikana. The fateful event left 34 Mineworkers dead, 78 wounded and more than 250 people were arrested. The protesting mineworkers were demanding a wage increase at Continue Reading
1 August The Education and Communications team will meet with the National Education Collaboration Trust regarding progress on the restoration of learning in Vuwani. SECTION27 has helped to raise funds to accommodate these learners while their schools are being rebuilt and merged. We continue to monitor the situation together with Continue Reading
Preparing for the International AIDS Conference in Durban In two weeks, the International AIDS Conference returns to Durban and South Africa for first time since 2000. SECTION27 along with the Treatment Action Campaign and other activists are planning a series of activities. On Monday 18 July 2016 departing from King Continue Reading
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]27 June to 01 July 2016[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Monday 27 June: SECTION27 welcomes one of two new SLSJ interns Rose Msomi. Rose is in her second year of her LLB degree and an enthusiastic member of the newly formed SLSJ UP branch. Mark Heywood will be participating in a panel discussion Continue Reading
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_custom_heading text_color=”color-nhtu” subheading=”“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.” ― Bob Marley”]30 May – 5 June 2016[/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]This week, we take a step back to reflect on what this past week brought for the #Appeal4Vuwani efforts and fundraising to restore learning Continue Reading
The Health Market Inquiry resumed public hearings in Pretoria today, 3 May 2016. Following a cogent first set, the Panel has extended the general rounds to include relevant stakeholders that had not participated in the previous sittings. The South African Nurses Council, the Office of Health Standards Compliance, Medscheme and Continue Reading
First appeared on the Daily Maverick by Mark Heywood, Director of SECTION27 Today, 10 July, marks one year since the Bophelo House 94 were arrested for participating in an ‘illegal demonstration’. This week, across the miles and miles of brown and blighted farmland that separates Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free Continue Reading
A week into the public sector strike the Treatment Action Campaign and SECTION27 regret that no agreement has been reached between striking public service workers and the government. We support the demands of workers and their right to strike. But we regret the growing polarisation, pain and loss of life. This is now a political crisis that requires political leadership and a solution.
On 19 April 2001, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association of South Africa (PMA) and numerous multinationalbrand-name pharmaceutical companies abandoned their legal challenge to the Medicines and Related Substances Control Amendment Act, 90 of 1997 (the Medicines AmendmentAct).