Back in high school, science was always my greatest nemesis, so when the time came to choose, I gladly traded in the science labs for the stage. When the science kids skipped off to their physics classes, the remainder of us ‘arty-farties’, danced all the way to the drama room for Dramatic Arts. Coming from that background of subject segregation, I would never have thought it possible to experience the absurdity of being reintroduced to a drama theorist in a science workshop. That was until Scifest 2017. Where the Science meets the Arts is a workshop exploring how science concepts…
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The National Health and Education Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the Grahamstown and Port Alfred Community Health Care workers held a peaceful march from Joza Location, via Fingo Square, to hand over a memorandum to the Makana District Office of Health on Tuesday 18 October.
By ANELE MJEKULA A group of Fort England employees have vowed to protest until CEO Roger Walsh is permanently removed from the hospital. Walsh reported for duty on Monday after an absence of just over a month, pending the report on a follow-up investigation into allegations by employee unions against the hospital’s management. The CEO’s return to the institution sparked a protest from employees who are still waiting for the latest report. In July the Eastern Cape Department of Health asked Walsh to leave his post after a string of protests at Fort England. The instruction came four days…
By ANELE MJEKULA Fort England Psychiatric Hospital employees who have been calling for the axing of the hospital’s CEO Dr Roger Walsh, have been temporarily interdicted from engaging in any further picketing in the hospital premises, pending the court case. Four unions and seven individuals have been named as respondents in a case heard in the Port Elizabeth Labour Court on Friday, 12 February. Thando Mtshalala, Plaatjie, Z Kitsili, Stofile, Denzel Williams, Mvula and Ngosini are named as respondents in the matter together with the National Health Education and Allied Workers Union, National Union of Public Service and Allied…