The 68-page report, “‘This Government is Failing Me Too’: South Africa Compounds Legacy of Apartheid for Older People,” details the government’s failure to effectively carry out the Older Persons Act, a post-apartheid law that guarantees the rights of older people and provides for community- and home-based care and support services. These services would enable older people to continue to live in their own homes with the support they are entitled to.
The Imbumba Association for the Aged has threatened to take the Eastern Cape social development department to court over budget cuts that will see some of society’s most vulnerable left without nursing and essential care.
The Imbumba Association launches an urgent campaign to create widespread public awareness about the Eastern Cape Department of Social Development’s (EC DSD)