Nurses strike shows poor management of health care in Kenya: Striking Kenyan nurses take part in a protest in Nairobi. Reuters/Baz Ratner Nurses in Kenya’s public hospitals have been on strike since June, paralysing health care services countrywide. At the centre of their dispute is a collective bargaining agreement that had been struck with county …
South Africa in the news: Vodacom : Signpost. Why the poor pay R1 for data and the rich 5c: Yes, Telkom lost the voice market years ago, but now data is our game This week the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa released a report with a dull title but a dramatic message. The regulator’s …
Maria Sharapova’s wild card for the US Open does tennis a poor service: Winning in 2014. Shutterstock I once watched Maria Sharapova play tennis live. It was the fourth round of the French Open in 2014 against Sam Stosur. Sharapova lost the first set, but it was clear that this would only delay the inevitable. …
The global food system still benefits the rich at the expense of the poor: Bustling scene at a market in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Shutterstock Ramen noodles in Sweden, wheat bread in Tanzania and Chilean wines in China. The cross-Atlantic transit of the potato and the tomato from the Andes to Europe, and back again as French …
Living in a poor area increases the risk of anxiety in women, but not men: Women are hardest hit. Shutterstock Women living in the most deprived areas are over 60% more likely to have anxiety as women living in richer areas. However, whether men live in poorer or richer areas seems to make very little …
South Africa in the news: Zimbabwe ‘not A Poor Country’: “Zimbabwe is the most highly developed country in Africa after South Africa.” Long-time leader Mugabe has ruled through the country’s dramatic economic collapse. Hyperinflation wiped out savings more than 10 years ago, unemployment is sky-high and …: “South Africa” – BingNews South African Sports Minister …
Easier than ever to buy cheap booze in poor areas: Cheap booze is easier than ever to buy despite the dramatic surge in pub closures – especially in deprived areas, according to new research. A new study shows that despite ten per cent of pubs closing between 2001 and 2013, the average distance from any …
South Africa in the news: Why are only spinning wickets classified as poor?: No doubt I’ve missed a few other examples, so feel free to crunch the numbers on Statsguru. South Africa v Australia in Cape Town, 2011: 100 percent of the wickets earned by bowlers fell to the quicks in a Test in which …
The odds are stacked against athletes from poor countries in paralympic sport: The US's Regas Woods of competing in the long jump at the Rio paralympics. Reuters/Jason Cairnduff International disability sporting events have become much more visible in recent years and have been promoted as a way of achieving inclusion and promoting participation. But our …
Why it doesn’t help — and may harm — to fail pupils with poor maths marks: Learning deficits in Maths compound over time. Shutterstock Many South Africans were outraged by the recent announcement that for 2016, pupils in Grades 7 to 9 could progress to the next grade with only 20% in Mathematics. The usual …
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Another century, another witch-hunt: this time it’s poor Muslim women: Poor, uneducated, housebound women appear to be almost wholly responsible for the lack of integration of some Muslim communities in Britain. At least, that seems to be the finding of a new report on social cohesion, carried out by Dame Louise Casey. She says that …
Huge cuts have made elder care today look like a relic of the Poor Law: Eduard Darchinyan/www.shutterstock.com Older people and their families have been “left to fend themselves” as the social care system in the UK slips into an extreme crisis, according to a new report. After years of warnings about major demographic change and …
Climate change health risks will hit the poor hardest – so what can be done?: The livelihood of this fishing community in Nigeria is being threatened as a result of climate change. Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye Discussions about climate change and the effects it will have on public health and the global burden of disease have been …
The Rock Collection & Poor Man’s Whiskey at Great American Music Hall Fri Sept 9th – a Music interest event taking place on 2016-09-09 21:00:00 in United States The Rock Collection is an all-star songwriting and performing collaboration with an amazing chemistry onstage. Melvin Seals (Jerry Garcia Band/JGB), Greg Anton (Zero), Stu Allen (Phil Lesh …
How Africa’s poor laboratory services are hampering disease control: Shutterstock Laboratory services play an important role in diagnosing and monitoring diseases. They are also critical in identifying changing disease patterns that come about from changes in lifestyle, migration and population growth. These patterns often result in viral, bacterial and parasitic infections emerging in countries where …