Amandla! Events

Event: Literacy and Campaign Strategy Workshop On the National Health Insurance (NHI) and the Public Health System

DATE :         Saturday, 7 November 2009
TIME :         10h30 to 16h30
VENUE :         D3 lecture theatre, 3rd floor, Old Red Cross Building, Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Klipfontein Road, Rondebosch

Aims and Objectives

1.    To build the literacy of activists on the NHI, the public health system and privatised health care;
2.    To build a common critical understanding on the content of the NHI;
3.    To debate and develop a campaign strategy and programme of action on the NHI; and
4.    To relate the NHI campaign to long-term strategies required for the rest of the health system and strengthening of community based movements focusing on health.

This is an important workshop for all concerned with the crisis in the public health system. The future of the NHI and the entire health system rests in the hands of the people. With clarity, organisation, unity and purposeful action we can win a good NHI and an efficient, high quality, decommodified and universally available public health system.

Build your knowledge! Mobilise! Build the Campaign! Mobilise for an efficient health system!

Proposed Workshop Programme

1.    Arrival and registration                                                    10h00 – 10h30

2.    Welcome, opening and introductions                                 10h30 – 10h45

3.    Inputs                                                                            10h45 – 12h00

a.    The crisis in the public health system (Invited: Mark Heywood, TAC)
b.    A critique of the private health system (Invited: Noel Nair, SAMWUMED)
c.    The ANC proposal for an NHI (Invited: Tebogo Phadu, ANC NHI Task Team)

4.    Commissions                                                                 12h00 – 13h00

a.    Content of the NHI and the related crisis in the public health system & 13h30 – 15h00
b.    The private health system
c.    Building the campaign (strategy, community mobilisation, lobbying, etc.)

5.    Commission reports and way forward                               15h00 – 15h45

6.    Closing remarks                                                               15h45 – 16h00

Workshop documents (will be sent separately)

1.    Literacy leaflets from the UCT Health Economics Unit
2.    Presentation on NHI
3.    Articles in the last Amandla magazine on the NHI (www.amandla.org.za)

CONTACT

1.    Mercia Andrews – 082 368 3429 & This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
2.    Damaris Fritz – 0768139706 & This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
3.    Mama Darlinah Tyawana – 0732210354 & This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
4.    Richard October – 0835056911 & This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
5.    Alan Jackson -083 254 8724 & This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
6.    Mazibuko K. Jara – 083 651 0271 & This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Amandla Forum: Media Monopolies & Democracy

Friday, 16 October 2009 11:33

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South African media ownership is concentrated in the hands of a few corporations. Four companies (Avusa, Naspers, Independent , and Caxton) own the bulk of print media and the SABC controls 41.6% of radio audiences and 69.3% and television audience.

South Africa is facing a deepening social economic crisis, 500 000 jobs where lost between January and June this year alone. Violent crime and crime against women continues to increase. Yet the SA media is obsessed with the lives of 'big men' - the mafia crime drama of Mr Selebi or who will coach the national soccer team.

Join us for a lively discussion on "the Implications of monopoly media ownership for democracy".

DATE: 29 October 2009.

TIME: 18h00

VENUE: Orion (Devonshire) Hotel, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

SPEAKERS: Patrick Craven, COSATU

Lumko Mtimde, MDDA

Franklin Huizies (NCRF)

RSVP: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 0214472525

Does South Africa need a new left party?

Does South Africa need a new left party is the next topic in the Daily Dispatch's series of public dialogues and is co-hosted by Amandla! media and Rhodes University.

When: 5h30pm, Thursday, 15 October 2009
Where: Humanities seminar room, cnr Somerset and Prince Alfred street, Grahamstown.

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