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Inequality, vultures & Covid-19
(Initially published by City Press, South Africa) There continues to be much talk about how unequal our society is, how the wage and welfare gap is the biggest in the world. But how many people are aware that there are perhaps 30 South African billionaires? Or that, for the most part, they seems they have […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
‘Grooming’, irrationality & Covid-19
August 5, 2020
Unless a series of sometimes contradictory and apparently irrational Covid-19 orders is cleared up, the SA government may be regarded as the National Inanity.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
Irrationality & the vultures
July 27, 2020
As more people are thrown onto the scrapheap of unemployment, driven to desperation, the vultures gather to pick their bones.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
Hairybacks, ‘souties’ & an accidental ANC member
July 13, 2020
Available online at Daily Maverick: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-13-reflections-of-a-wayward-boy-hairybacks-soutpiele-and-an-accidental-member-of-the-anc/amp/ Reflections of a wayward boy (4) My life changed during that single day in early 1961 when I returned to the Germiston Advocate newspaper office after attending a Group Areas Board hearing and making my first visit to a township where I met and interviewed people who were about […]
Posted in: Autobiographical
Fight for a “peoples’ vaccine”
July 12, 2020
With the Trump administration playing ball with the pharmaceutical companies, democrats everywhere should rally to fight for the "peoples' vaccine" demanded in May by 140 experts and world leaders, including President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa.
Posted in: Uncategorized
Three clarion calls to action
July 12, 2020
Time to fight for free, universal access to any Covid-19 vaccine or treatment and, in the longer term, free, universal healthcare.
Posted in: Inside Labour Column
ECD ruling exacerbates inequality
July 7, 2020
The Pretoria high court ruling that childcare centres, closed since March, may open immediately, but subject to safety requirements will not affect the overwhelming majority of such centres. Instead, it will exacerbate existing inequalities.
Posted in: Human Rights
Chaos reigns in the pre-school space
June 30, 2020
Chaos and confusion continues to reign in South Africa’s early childhood development (ECD) sector, with some 2.5 million children under the age of six shut out of 32,000 ECD centres by the Covid-19 lockdown. They are now not only without any structured environment, they have missed out for three months on the one nutritious meal […]
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Terry Bell Writes 
August 5, 2020
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