Health Professionals Endorse SJC’s Campaign for Clean & Safe Sanitation

The recent outbreak of an epidemic of severe enteritis in Germany should certainly make us sit up and take note and action. This particular epidemic was most unusual in that the cause was a highly toxic and virulent EHEH variant of the common E coli bacterium. E coli bacteria are relatively harmless inhabitants of the normal human gut.This outbreak occurred and spread fairly widely in a country known for its high standard of sanitation and hygiene. The consequences of an epidemic of this nature possibly occurring in the informal settlements in this country are too horrendous to contemplate.

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SJC Condemns Protection of Information Bill

The Social Justice Coalition and Equal Education are gravely concerned about the draft Protection of Information Bill (“POIB”) currently being debated in Parliament. As non-governmental community-based organisations working in an open and democratic society, one of our primary functions is to hold government to account. If passed in its current form, the POIB would fundamentally…

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An Open Letter to Mayor Patricia De Lille

An abridged version of this open letter first appeared in City Press, 5 June 2011   5 June 2011 Dear Madam Mayor, Firstly, let me congratulate you on your ascent to the position of Mayor of Cape Town.  You will no doubt be aware that with this position comes the challenge of delivering to a…

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Why We Will Queue This Freedom Day

This is an unabridged version of an article by the SJC’s Gavin Silber and Mandla Majola, which appeared in The Times Newspaper on 26 April 2011 The brutal murder of Andries Tatane by Police during a protest for access to water in Ficksburg is symbolic of the inequality, poverty and injustice that continues to haunt…

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