#afrique_du_sud

W(h)ither the whites? - City Press
http://www.citypress.co.za/columnists/whither-the-whites

In 1994, on a per capita basis, black South Africans could expect to receive approximately 12 cents for every rand received by a white South African. In 2012, almost 20 years into our democracy, black South Africans were receiving only 13 cents for every rand received by white people.

Here it must be explained that the key driver of such continued inequality is not white wealth but, rather, abysmal education and labour-market outcomes for black South Africans.

We estimate that, on current trends, only 40% of black South African children are set to pass matric, and only 4% are set to pass maths in matric.

#afrique_du_sud #inégalités via @zackie

India Bihar rapes ’caused by lack of toilets’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22460871

Most of the cases of rape of women and girls in India’s Bihar state occur when they go out to defecate in the open, police and social activists say.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67493000/jpg/_67493017_67493015.jpg
Some 85% of the rural households in the state, one of India’s poorest, have no access to a toilet, a study says.

#viols #toilettes #inde #femmes #santé via @sjc

Un petit aperçu de l’évolution de l’IDH (indice du développement humain) entre 1980 et 2012. Regardez la Grèce, le Portugal :

Un graph excel vite fait (juste le squelette) à partir des données du PNUD (Rapport sur le développement humain) montre - même à cette échelle, la dégradation de deux pays très touchés par la crise (pas encore visible sur la courbe espagnole que je n’ai pas mise ici).

On voit aussi la stagnation de l’Afrique du Sud, aujourd’hui largement dépassée par la Chine (dont les progrès ont été fulgurants).

etc...

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ly4kzj7s3cebqoe/idh%201890%202012.jpg

#développement #idh #inégalités #pauvreté #crise #grèce #portugal #afrique-du-sud

SA police caught dead to rights | Opinion | Comment and Analysis | Mail & Guardian
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-04-26-00-sa-police-caught-dead-to-rights

Police ­Minister Nathi Mthethwa was ordered by the Durban High Court to pay R165 000 in damages to two activists from the shack-dweller movement Abahlali ­baseMjondolo and a member of the Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban who had been injured by police gunfire.

#bidonvilles #afrique_du_sud #répression #logement

Cape Town’s dirty secret - Mail & Guardian
http://mg.co.za/multimedia/2013-04-25-cape-towns-dirty-secret

diaporama de David Harrison sur le problème des #toilettes à Khayelitsha

#photo #santé #afrique_du_sud

Like Israel, Palestinians must also learn the lessons of South Africa - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

►http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/like-israel-palestinians-must-also-learn-the-lessons-of-south-africa.premiu

PRETORIA - Not only Israelis but Palestinians, too, must learn the lessons of South Africa. The struggle of the black population focused on one issue: universal vote. Nelson Mandela’s demand for “one person, one vote” was more than a slogan, it was a strategic goal. It became reality on April 27th, 19 years ago, when the first multiracial elections were held. Ever since, democracy has been safeguarded, elections are held regularly and the new constitution is upheld and guides this state, despite its hardships and complexities.

#israel #palestine #appartheid #afrique-du-sud

Rockville, South Africa: The people who ’live in shit’ | Mail & Guardian
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-04-19-00-rockville-the-people-who-live-in-shit

The United Nations Children’s Fund uses diarrhoea as a measure of a country’s water treatment infrastructure. Nearly 60 out of every 1000 children in South Africa die before the age of five – about 58 000 a year. (...)

The South African Medical Journal investigated this and said: “South Africa is sitting on a health time bomb caused by outright neglect of its water and sanitation systems.”

#choléra #toilettes #santé #afrique_du_sud

Yoza Cellphone Stories
http://www.yoza.mobi/static_pages/view/14

The m4Lit (mobiles for literacy) project is about using mobile phones as a way for teens to read and write. We provide mobile novels (m-novels) to read, as well as invite writing in the form of reader comments and writing competitions, all on mobile phones. Our point of departure is that South Africa is a book-poor, but mobile phone-rich society. (...) For the foreseeable future the #mobile phone, not the Kindle or iPad, is the ereader of Africa. We will exploit that to improve Africa’s literacy levels.

#ebook #afrique_du_sud #sms ?

Sida : l’Afrique du Sud lance les antirétroviraux les moins chers du monde

L’Afrique du Sud, qui compte un record de près de six millions de séropositifs, soit 11% de la population, a lancé lundi un nouveau programme de distribution de médicaments antirétroviraux (ARV) pour simplifier le traitement, réduit de trois à un seul comprimé par jour, au prix « le moins cher du monde ».

http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2013/04/08/sida-l-afrique-du-sud-lance-les-antiretroviraux-les-moins-cher-du-monde_8

J’ai fondé un réseau de soins communautaires - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvlsM3g3xaQ&feature=player_embedded

Veronica Khosa vit à Mamelodi, à une quinzaine de kilomètres de Prétoria. Infirmière dans le principal centre de dépistage du sida de la ville, elle se rend compte dans les années 90 que le système de santé est incapable de gérer l’ensemble des malades. Elle décide alors de mobiliser sa communauté afin de former familles et amis des patients pour dispenser des soins à domicile, persuadée que l’entraide peut favoriser les conditions de vie des malades.

#sida #Afrique_du_Sud #santé #solidarité cc@fil

South Africa should learn from Brazil’s Bolsa Familia | Jack Lewis - Groundup
http://www.groundup.org.za/content/south-africa-should-learn-brazils-bolsa-familia

There is one overriding lesson [from Brazil]: income redistribution by means of conditional cash transfers works! And the sooner we in South Africa devise ways to follow this example, the better. The key measure for lowering income inequality in Brazil that should be adopted immediately in South Africa is the Basic Income Grant.

#revenu_garanti #inégalités #afrique_du_sud #brésil

The Economist explains: Why is South Africa included in the BRICS? |

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/03/economist-explains-why-south-africa-brics

BRAZIL, Russia, India, China and South Africa recently concluded the fifth annual meeting of the countries known collectively as the BRICs. Or should that be the BRICS? The confusion arises from the fact that South Africa has sneaked into the group, which claims to represent the world’s emerging markets and act as a counterweight to the G8 and G20, which are dominated by rich-world economies.

#brics #afrique-du-sud

South Africa: Minister Motshekga’s dodgy plan for schools - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zMijZ7ePU

#afrique_du_sud #éducation #militer

Le 5e sommet des Brics s’ouvre à Durban - Afrique du Sud - RFI

http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20130326-afrique-sud-cinqui%C3%A8me-sommet-brics-durban?ns_campaign=nl_AFRIQUE26

Les Brics tiennent sommet ce mardi 26 mars à Durban en Afrique du Sud. Cinq pays – Brésil, Russie, Inde, Chine, Afrique du Sud – en plein boom et bien décidés à peser encore davantage sur les institutions mondiales. Parmi les décisions concrètes les plus attendues, la création d’une banque internationale de développement.

#brics #afrique-du-sud

Shell accused of benefiting from South African apartheid-era land law | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/21/shell-south-africa-apartheid-land

The oil giant is not so welcome, however, to a community where land ownership remains a highly inflammatory subject. Shell stands accused of paying rent of just 192 rand (£13.75) a year for each of the two stations – barely enough to buy enough petrol for a 100km journey. The company strongly denies the claim.

The dispute comes against the backdrop of widespread poverty in KwaZulu-Natal province and the imminent centenary of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act, which resulted in the systematic dispossession of black South Africans. Even under democracy, millions of hectares of state-owned land have still not been transferred to those who live on it

#afrique_du_sud #pétrole #concession #pauvreté #apartheid

Media mis-reporting HIV rate among SA schoolgirls. True rate is 12.7 percent | Africa Check
http://africacheck.org/reports/media-mis-reporting-the-hiv-rate-among-schoolgirls-true-rate-is-12-7-pe

The claim that 28 percent of South African schoolgirls are living with HIV started with a remark by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, misreported by The Sowetan. Unquestioned, it has been repeated by media across the country and the world. The true rate is half that.

#hiv #santé #sida #information #factchecking #afrique_du_sud

En #Afrique_du_Sud, colère des mineurs, déceptions populaires
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2013/01/DERENS/48617

Trois ouvrages récents offrent une toile de fond aux tragiques événements de la mine de Marikana, lorsque, à l’été 2012, la police a tiré sur des mineurs en grève. Ils donnent à voir, même sous forme de fiction, la réalité de la vie quotidienne en Afrique du Sud aujourd’hui. Le dernier roman de Nadine (...) / Afrique du Sud, #Littérature, Pauvreté, Société - 2013/01

#Pauvreté #Société #2013/01

Overview of the #Internet in #South_Africa [infographic]
http://nu.org.za/overview-of-the-internet-in-south-africa-infographic
http://i2.wp.com/nu.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Internet_in_South_Africa-01.png

#afrique_du_sud (à noter la légende qui précise ce qu’on entend par « PNB », afin de s’adresser à tous.)

http://www.rue89.com/2013/03/14/les-adolescentes-sud-africaines-preferent-les-sugar-dadees-14-sont-seropositi

Dans cette brève ignoble, rue89 se garde bien de rappeler que l’Afrique du sud est le pays dans lequel il y a le plus de viols au monde. Ça permet aux commentateurs du pur player de traiter les adolescentes de putes.

D’après un sondage établi par l’ONU entre 1998 et 2000, l’Afrique du Sud a le plus fort taux mondial de viol par habitant1. Ce sondage estime qu’une femme née en Afrique du Sud a plus de chance d’être violée que d’apprendre à lire. En 1998, une femme sur trois sur les 4 000 femmes interrogées à Johannesburg a été violée, selon CIET Afrique.
Plus de 25 % des hommes sud-africains interrogés en 2009 par le Conseil de recherche médicale d’Afrique du Sud admettent avoir déjà violé quelqu’un. Et parmi eux, presque la moitié dit avoir été violé par plus d’une personne.
Les trois quarts de ceux qui ont admis avoir été violé l’ont été pour la première fois durant leur adolescence. On estime que 500 000 viols sont commis chaque année en Afrique du Sud.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_sexuelle_en_Afrique_du_sud

#la_gerbe #viol #sexisme #desinformation #masculinisme

Police murder in South Africa - World Socialist Web Site
►http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/09/pers-m09.html

Police murder in South Africa

9 March 2013

South Africa is an “angry nation” teetering “on the precipice of something very dangerous with the potential of not being able to stop the fall,” warned Graca Machel, the wife of Nelson Mandela. “We have to be more cautious about how we deal with a society that is bleeding and breathing pain.”
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Machel was speaking at the memorial service for Mido Macia, the 27-year of Mozambican taxi driver who died after being dragged at speed down the road by a South African police van. He was then, according to fellow detainees, beaten in police custody. His crime was to argue with the police over having parked on the wrong side of the road.

#afrique-du-sud #racisme #xénophobie

« Là-bas si j’y suis » : mars 2013
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/carnet/2013-03-05-La-bas-si-j-y-suis-mars-2013

A écouter, comme chaque mois, l’émission « Autour du diplo » qui réunit les journalistes du « Monde diplomatique » sur France Inter. / #Afrique_du_Sud, #Amérique_latine, #Irak, #Tunisie, #Finance, #Histoire, #Inégalités, #Mouvement_de_contestation, #Parti_politique, #Pétrole, #Religion, #Science, #Spéculation, #Sport, (...) / Afrique du Sud, Amérique latine, Irak, Tunisie, Finance, Histoire, Inégalités, Mouvement de contestation, Parti politique, Pétrole, Religion, Science, Spéculation, Sport, #Violence, #Fondamentalisme, (...)

#Apartheid #Vatican #Dictature #Guerre_d'Irak_2002_- #La_valise_diplomatique
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/rss/IMG/mp3/labas1303.mp3

South Africa steps in over alleged #Zimbabwe mass rapes | FAIR
http://fairreporters.net/2013/02/26/south-africa-steps-in-over-alleged-zimbabwe-mass-rapes

South African prosecutors will investigate President Robert Mugabe’s political party for crimes against humanity for an alleged campaign of mass rapes in Zimbabwe’s last election.

#afrique_du_sud #viols

Connecting the Economy: access to knowledge is vital for progress | Ndifuna Ukwazi
http://nu.org.za/connecting-the-economy

David Harrison’s article in the Cape Times titled The Empowerment of Connection should act as wake up call for all the communities of South Africa (rich and poor) to put more pressure on communications departments within government and the private sector into making internet affordable. Investing in cheaper connectivity for all should be a major priority: research has shown that it increases household income, which means a larger consumer pool for corporates and more tax money for the government – everybody wins.

(...) The immediate future of connectivity and information access is through mobile technology, with the 2011 consensus revealing that 89% of households own at least one cell phone, whereas only 21% have access to computers, and 15% access to a landline. Half of the people who do access the web, do so via a phone. But, damningly, two thirds of the South African population still do not have access to the internet. The reason for this is infrastructure. There are cell phone towers broadcasting to most inhabited places in South Africa, but the cost of using them is too high to make it practical for sending and receiving large amounts of information.

#mobile #afrique_du_sud

New Research On Whoonga Suggests Heroin & Rat Poison Are Main Ingredients, Not ARV’s
http://www.belowthelion.co.za/new-research-on-whoonga-suggests-heroin-rat-poison-are-main-ingredie

Dr Thavendran Govender, of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Chemistry department, tested samples of Whoonga and found that the drug was based on Heroin and rat poison (Strychnine), not ARV’s. Only trace amounts of ARV’s were found in one of the samples.

#sida #afrique_du_sud #drogue #rumeurs

L’ail s’avère 100 fois plus efficace que les antibiotiques et agit en un temps record « Realinfos
http://realinfos.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/lail-savere-100-fois-plus-efficace-que-les-antibiotiques-et-agi

Une découverte significative de l’Université de l’État de Washington montre que l’ail est 100 fois plus efficace que deux antibiotiques populaires pour combattre des maladies causées par des bactéries responsables de toxi-infections alimentaires.

Et en plus, ça marche aussi très bien pour limiter la reproduction "haleine à l’ail, biroute qui défaille" !