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Water woes in Limpopo make Covid-19 prevention difficult
Still no running water for Limpopo villages, despite promises. (File Photo)
Heavy rains have damaged already inadequate water infrastructure in Vhembe in Limpopo. The long wait for running water is making it impossible for community members to follow hygiene-based anti-Covid-19 practices like washing hands.
“It is so painful being forced to drink the same water which animals also drink,” said Ndavheleseni Matshidze, a community leader in the Mabila village, outside Thohoyandou. “But there is nothing we can do as we have done everything within our powers to raise our concerns with our local municipalities but nothing is being done.”
In recent weeks we have learnt three things that should be of concern to anyone who cares about the future of South Africa’s children and one thing that is a cause for optimism. Each relates to the government’s ability to deliver on a centrepiece pledge in the National Development Plan: universal access to two years of early childhood development.
The early years are a critical developmental window, laying the foundations for success at school and beyond. But in South Africa, there are more than a million children aged three to five who are not accessing any early childhood development programme. And more than three-quarters of them are in low-income households.
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A question on gender identity won t be in Census 2022 - but may be in future ones
British citizens will be asked about their gender identity for the first time, the country’s national statistician said on Friday. By Gráinne Ní Aodha Wednesday 10 Feb 2021, 6:00 AM Feb 10th 2021, 6:00 AM 11,224 Views 21 Comments
THE CENTRAL STATISTICS Office has confirmed that Census 2022 won’t include a question about citizens’ gender identity, but research is being carried out into including the question in subsequent ones.
Ireland’s census form has included a question on the form that asks about people’s sex. The options are ‘male’ or ‘female’.
2020-12-24 03:06:01 GMT2020-12-24 11:06:01(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HONG KONG, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) - The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Wednesday that its recurrent cash measures lifted 392,900 persons out of poverty and reduced the poverty rate by 5.6 percentage points in 2019.
The HKSAR government released on Wednesday the Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report 2019. Adopting the analytical framework of the poverty line (PL) endorsed by Hong Kong s Commission on Poverty, the Office of the Government Economist in collaboration with the Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) updated and analysed the poverty statistics using data from the General Household Survey by the C&SD as the basis. This is the eighth annual update of the poverty situation analysis since the publication of the first official Poverty Line (PL) in 2013.