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13th May 2016 | Spotlight

#Justice4Miners

Today Judge Phineas Mojapelo delivered one of the most important judgments in post- apartheid South Africa. Read the full #Silcosis judgment regarding the certification of the class action here and also read articles in Issue 14 of the NSP Review.

Judgment – Bongani Nkala and Others v Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd (Final)

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ludwe tshabalala
May 13, 2016 on 4:11 pm
as the son of the x-miner i welcome the judgment,so what is the way forward for us the children,of these x-mines,as i write this e-mail,i don’t have the father,he die because of TB
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VIDEO: The Price of Gold

By Spotlight, May 12, 2016

Posted in: Video

Judgment in the historic Silicosis Class Action, Bongani Nkala and 55 Others v Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd and 31 Others, will be handed down in the South Gauteng High Court tomorrow (Friday 13 May 2016) at 9am. If the class is certified it will be the largest class to ever be certified in South Africa and it allow hundreds of thousands of gold miners and their families to access justice and redress. This short clip tells the story of some of the gold miners, the advocacy that has happened and the role of the amici.

Opinion: SA’s TB recovery doesn’t necessarily need a bigger budget, just reprioritisation

By Russell Rensburg, March 31, 2022

Posted in: Spotlight

Since the COVID-19 pandemic has stymied the progress of the tuberculosis response across the world, the call for increased investment is important. Although health programmes can always do with more financial assistance, in South Africa, for its TB Recovery Plan to work, the focus should be on the strategic use of existing resources, argues Russell Rensburg.

Tags: conditional grants Department of Health District Health Programme featured health budgets health financing National Institute for Communicable Diseases National TB recovery plan national treasury NICD patient information systems provincial equitable share provincial health departments RHAP Rural Health Advocacy Project Targeted universal testing TB programmes TB services TB Treatment tuberculosis

Opinion: SA’s TB recovery doesn’t necessarily need a bigger budget, just reprioritisation

In-depth: The long shadow of child malnutrition in South Africa

By Kathryn Cleary, July 24, 2020

Posted in: Latest

The COVID-19 lockdown is taking a potentially deadly toll on children, with reported child hunger on the rise and unemployment at a high. Kathryn Cleary takes an in-depth look at what this means for young children and asks the experts about potential solutions.

Tags: child child development child gauge child hunger child support grant children COVID-19 COVID-19 response early childhood development featured Rd Cross Children's Hospital

In-depth: The long shadow of child malnutrition in South Africa

Editorial: Can health be fixed without fixing politics?

By Marcus Low, October 18, 2022

Posted in: Editorial, Healthcare system, Latest, Provinces

Several provincial health departments have stumbled from crisis to crisis over the last decade with no sign of sustained or meaningful improvement. One reason for this, argues Spotlight editor Marcus Low, is political interference and the cadre deployment and cronyism that usually goes with it. If this is correct, is it realistic to think we can address the dysfunction in our health departments without addressing the politics behind it?

Tags: accountability corruption COVID-19 Department of Health district managers EDITORIAL featured health activism health administration health and politics health budgets health governance health resources healthcare workers political interference provincial health departments public health policy TAC

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