Posted on June 25, 2021
The birth of a premature infant can cause severe stress in families as parents are often unsure about their infant’s future. Is their infant going to survive? If the infant does survive, what are the possibilities of their infant having a disability or a developmental delay that requires...
Posted on June 25, 2021
During the past 14 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused most families to experience immense stress. Families and communities have been, and continue to be exposed to changes, such as having to work from home, the closing of child care centres and home schooling. Social distancing has caused...
Posted on June 25, 2021
International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day or May Day, is a celebration of the courage shown by the working class when they united in objecting to poor working conditions. This day is celebrated on different days in different countries, but generally falls on the first day of May....
Posted on June 25, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced significant stress and anxiety for many families around the world with lower income families more significantly affected during this time. The impact and demands placed on families has been considerable especially for families of children with special needs...
Posted on June 25, 2021
The impact of human activities on the physical environment are largely responsible for the observed loss of habitats, high levels of extinction, irreversible threats to biodiversity and loss of livelihoods. Ecosystem monitoring programmes, corrective measures and rehabilitation initiatives to...
Posted on June 25, 2021
World Environment Day, which we celebrate on 5 June this year, is a day that focuses on the environment and ecosystem restoration. This year kicks off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030). As the environment continues to suffer at the hands of humans, forests, peatlands and...
Posted on June 25, 2021
Remembering Sam Mzima’s iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson, memorialised at the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Soweto[1], the Soweto Poet Laureate[2] Ingoapele Madingoane’s poem Africa my beginning, Africa my ending,[3] and Ingrid Jonker’s The child who was shot dead...
Posted on June 25, 2021
On 10 June, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in partnership with the University of Pretoria and its transdisciplinary research institution Future Africa, hosted a youth forum under the theme: ‘Reimagine education tomorrow – Our time. Our turn. Our future’. As...
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