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disability revolution’s isidima campaign
what is disability revolution? Disability Revolution (DR) is a community-led movement of people with disabilities, their families, and carers, supported by #UniteBehind. We organise in Khayelitsha, Delft, Nyanga, and Eerste River to demand that clinics deliver the care, equipment, and supplies that people with disabilities are entitled to by right — not as charity, but…
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Part Four: Sfiso Buthelezi – The SLAPP
“Our parliament has become an instrument of corruption, it protects the corrupt, it promotes the corrupt.” – Zackie Achmat, #UNITEBEHIND (2023) What happens when activists tell the truth about a powerful politician? In the earlier parts of this series, we showed that corruption is more than just a headline. When PRASA was looted, the people…
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Unfinished business – part three
Original Sin This story is about Mosebenzi Zwane, the former Minister and Member of Parliament who was implicated in corruption during his time at Eskom, resulting in the loss of billions of rands for the ordinary people and our economy at large.It is also about his failure to hold PRASA executives to account – while…
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Unfinished business – part two
Part Two: Joe Maswanganyi – Unaccountable It is easy to treat corruption as something abstract – something that happens in board rooms that we hear about in the news and media, far removed from our daily life. But the consequences are in fact direct. Let’s take PRASA for example. In the 2010’s PRASA was just…