Times Live recently published an article that about Stats SA’s latest report saying that the country is still one of the most unequal in the world. Inequality Trends in South Africa, released on November 14, showed that white people earned three times more than black people on average, two decades after apartheid. The report also..
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What a load of bull! – According to Stats SA, whites earn three times more than black people! – What do our readers say about this?
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Mamelodi Hospital is a death trap; new-born baby fell to his death after mother gave birth standing up after nurses refuse to help her
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The Democratic Alliance says Mamelodi Hospital in Pretoria is overcrowded, understaffed and under-equipped.
DA’s national and Gauteng health spokespeople, Siviwe Gwarube and Jack Bloom visited the hospital following reports that a new-born baby fell to his death – allegedly after nurses refused to help his mother.
The woman allegedly gave birth standing up.
Gwarube says the hospital is a death trap.
This hospital sees the birth of about 800 babies a month and they only have two midwives working at any given time. They supposed to have 12. It puts the lives of people at risk.
“We are going to keep seeing these situations if we don’t lead with the root causes. If we are serious about universal healthcare, we cannot have hospitals like this which become death traps for our people,” she said.
The provincial health department says it’s investigating the case.
“As the department of health, we are aware of
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Left-wing media and its journalists were apparently bribed by Bosasa and form part of the corruption scandal
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Former Bosasa chief, Angelo Agrizzi, has been rattling the cages of the so called left-wing media and journalists when he named the names of journalists who are part of the corruption scandal. This all happened during the court procedure where he was giving evidence on day seven.
According to Agrizze, as much as R30,000 a month was paid to journalists to write positive reports about Bosasa, but there are also journalists who refuse to admit they were bribed.
One company director asked for R71,000 to be paid, of which R30,000 has to be set aside for journalists, which, according to observers, is indicative of the extent of the Bosasa corruption network.
Photo – Angelo Agrizzi
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