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Navigating Cape Town in a wheelchair: A daily act of pr

“Every activity in my daily life is an act of protest.” This is how Makgosi Letimile describes her experience as a disabled woman living in Cape Town. From the moment she opens her flat door and heads down the corridor of the nine-storey building where she lives, to the moment she reaches her destination, 36-year-old Makgosi is fighting a battle largely ignored by most fully abled people in our city. Makgosi Letimile has been on a wheelchair since 2016 due to TB complications. She says public space is out of reach for her given the lack of universal access. She sits in front of her building most days. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks)

Should we have another hard lockdown? Not yet

MONEYWEB app instead? Starting a lockdown too early or too late reduces the benefits but not the hardships. By Alex Welte 2 Apr 2021  00:43  The streets of Cape Town were eerily quiet on the first day of the March 2020 lockdown. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks President Ramaphosa introduced comparatively minor lockdown restrictions on Tuesday night: limits on the size of gatherings, and no alcohol off-sales over the Eastern weekend. So when does it make sense to introduce tougher measures? INSIDERGOLD Subscribe for full access to all our share and unit trust data tools, our award-winning articles, and support quality journalism in the process.

Foreign nationals speak out on unfair health treatment

In January 2021, when health minister Zweli Mkhize started giving public briefings on the country’s vaccine rollout strategy, he kept referring to SA citizens in his speeches. In an interview with SABC news, he also said vaccines would be limited to South African citizens, since the country “does not have the capacity to assist undocumented foreign nationals”. But President Cyril Ramaphosa later said vaccines would be made available to all adults living in South Africa regardless of citizenship or residency status. Asylum seekers waiting at the revamped Desmond Tutu Refugee Reception Centre in Marabastad. (Photo: GCIS) Then, at the end of February, Mkhize told members of the National Council of Provinces that the government must still draw up plans for the vaccination of undocumented foreign nationals. 

Wolwerivier five years on: We re as desperate as t

. The settlement of Wolwerivier, about 30 km from Cape Town’s city centre, is classified by the City of Cape Town as an “incremental development area”. But five years since it was created, there hasn’t been much “development”, say the families who live there. Magdalene Minnaar moved into Wolwerivier in April 2016. She had been living on a nearby farm with 22 other families, with no electricity and shared water points and toilets. Her new home in Wolwerivier has a toilet, running water and electricity, but when she moved in she found the lack of space depressing. “I stopped cooking completely. I was just sleeping,” she says.

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