Women and girls bear brunt of Africa ‘transport poverty’

13/11/2020 Kim Harrisberg

JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Long queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in a public taxi, the constant threat of road accidents, and nearly having to use a pen as a knife to fight off an aggressive male passenger.· Read More

Zimbabweans turn to sex work amid economic crisis and COVID-19

29/10/202029/10/2020 Farai Shawn Matiashe

MUTARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Dressed in a miniskirt and blouse, Esther Kamupunga stood in semi-darkness waiting for men looking for sex – the latest Zimbabwean to lose her job in a deepening economic crisis, worsened by the new · Read More

Zimbabwean woman fetched water in a stream Pic: Farai Shawn Matiashe

Africa’s miners face new TB threat as pandemic disrupts treatment

26/10/202026/10/2020 Kim Harrisberg

ERMELO, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Vama Jele’s heart dropped every time he heard that another migrant miner home from South Africa had died from tuberculosis (TB) due to skipping treatment under lockdown. In just four months, it happened · Read More

Snakes and sewage: Housing troubles grow in S. Africa’s Soweto

26/10/202026/10/2020 Kim Harrisberg

JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Crumbling walls, sewage leaking into homes, dangerous loose wires – and sometimes, snakes.

These are some of the myriad issues residents in Soweto, South Africa’s biggest township, have been dealing with for decades, as they · Read More

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Mandela’s granddaughter Ndileka uses social media during lockdown to help abused women

25/10/202026/10/2020 Kim Harrisberg

JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ndileka Mandela was at her home in Johannesburg, South Africa, just before the start of a national lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus, when she got the call.

A container filled with 10,000 · Read More

Ndileka Mandela: Reuters

The daily battle of rural nurses on S. Africa’s COVID-19 frontline

10/10/202013/10/2020 Reuters

TAUNG, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) South African nurse Ruth Seikaneng did not have time to mourn her colleague Dudu, who died from COVID-19 in one quick, painful week in July.

In the town of Reivilo in the country’s North West · Read More

In the front line: Reuters

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