www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/... Pinkwashing and hollow solidarity

ICYMI last night #SCOTUS ruled in AVAC's legal case to give the Administration a free pass to withhold #foreignaid. A dissenting judge warned that the stakes in this case are too significant to be decided through the Court’s emergency docket.

Please, we are begging you, listen to REAL doctors and scientists. And in case anyone needs a reminder: neither Donald Trump or RFK Jr. are doctors.

www.who.int/news/item/26... "The era of governments subsidizing the profits of private industries by footing the long-term health care costs of cheap tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks must end."

www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/09/19/e... "Whichever way you slice it, the harsh truth is that even in 2025, the devastating crisis in Gauteng’s health system shows no sign of improvement. Corruption still plagues the department just as severely as it did a decade ago, if not more so."

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Brilliant article. Especially about those armchair right wingers and empty statements from government.

A second government health system collapses on our border - and I am pretty sure two others are too - but crisis, what crisis?

blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser... This. THIS!

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... Fascinating history.

bhekisisa.org/article/prof... 👏

For more than 27 years, raw sewage has been flowing into the Kruger National Park from Phalaborwa. Sewers and pump stations in Phalaborwa are barely working, despite having been refurbished. Read groundup.org.za/article/sten... by Bernard Chiguvare

amabhungane.org/amabhungane-... The contempt our politicians in parliament have for their oversight responsibilities

www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/... This

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... "But neither Dada Morero nor his MMC for infrastructure, Jack Sekwaila, were anywhere to be seen; nor was the city’s bomb squad appointed to deal with service delivery crises. Not even President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Swat team for Joburg..."

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 14 million people. Stop calling the politicians making the cuts 'unserious' people.

www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/... "Today, the Eastern Cape’s vast road network shows this; meticulously repaired in middle-class suburbs, but deeply broken in Black townships, and virtually invisible in remote villages." We really need a new government.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... Betereinders 🤣

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... But we're building more medical schools. Who needs strategy when we have blind hope?

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... But we're building more medical schools. Who needs strategy when we have blind hope?

groundup.org.za/article/deat... "US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and the former DOGE point man, Elon Musk, have both asserted that “no one has died” as a result of the aid cuts."

groundup.org.za/article/moza... Tell us how no one has died again?

reimaginingglobalhealth.substack.com/p/the-smell-... "... feeling that same slow rupture creeping into the world of global health.. the fight against HIV, TB, malaria, and maternal death... Whole chapters of effort are being closed mid-sentence."

My nerves are totally shot BECAUSE I kept watching.

Cream for that burn, Elon?

When BlueSky can't (and doesn't want to) compete. This is watching a billionaire car wreck, and it is delicious.

bhekisisa.org/health-news-... "Researchers who surveyed over 9 000 people in key populations found that less than half, and in some cases not even a quarter, said they were treated well; about one in five said they were blocked from getting services."

www.instagram.com/reel/DJXWLxt... Switzerland is NOT real. I knew it! That price for a thimble of wine...