Health and poverty confronted
RANTING Orange Farm residents land to farm was raised as just one possible solution to issues of health and poverty facing Johannesburg in the future.Attracting formal businesses to informal settlements and improving clinic access were also pinpointed in the wrap-up session of the health and poverty themed week of the City’s Growth and Development Strategy (GDS) outreach programme. The wrap was held at Emoyeni conference centre in Parktown on 27 August.
The member of the mayoral committee for health and human development, Nonceba Molwele, officially concluded the events of the week. “We travelled throughout the city speaking to residents, and came to realise that the coalface of service delivery is at local government.
“We saw the warmth of people even though they stare at poverty daily, and we were encouraged to see old and young involved in discussions. It was a learning curve for all officials,” she said.
Musician Yvonne Chaka Chaka, who was the ambassador for the Health and Poverty Week, shared Molwele’s sentiments: “It was a learning curve for me too. It is important that we all do this together, as there are still many questions to ask.”
Some of these questions revolve around the role of local government in battling ill health. Laetitia Rispel, a professor at the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits), spoke on this issue. “Firstly, I turned it around from ‘combating ill health’ to ‘promoting health,’” she said.
Then she compared how South Africa, and Johannesburg in particular, rated against other countries in a similar income bracket in terms of health statistics such as life expectancy and infant mortality rates.
Life expectancy in South Africa is 45 and, according to Rispel, “it doesn’t compare well to other countries of similar income, such as Brazil”. Maternal and infant mortality rates are alarmingly high, and the maternal mortality rate increased between 2000 and 2005 from 230 to 400 per 1 000 births.
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Since health and poverty went hand-in-hand, there was also a need to look at the role of local government in combating and reducing poverty. The head of social development in Gauteng, Bheki Sibeko, examined what the City should be doing.
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Endgame For Brazil's Role In UN's Mission In Haiti? - Analysis
By Alex Sanchez
Brazil’s leadership in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) may be coming to its end. The newly-appointed defense minister, Celso Amorin (most recently he served as foreign affairs minister from 2003 to 2011) recently declared to the Brazilian media that he “supports the withdrawal of Brazilian troops from Haiti.”[1] Should this happen, it would be a major departure from the status quo, and would greatly affect MINUSTAH’s operations, as well as jolt Brazil’s role as the Caribbean’s major arbiter of security. Furthermore, Brasilia’s quest for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has been partially based on its role in MINUSTAH as an example of its readiness for a UN seat, which may now be called into question.
Brazil’s role in HaitiBrasilia racked up a huge leadership role in MINUSTAH, which had as its mission to aid the transitional government that gained control of Haiti (via the UNSC’s resolution 1542) after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in early 2004. The mission was controversial at the time and drew heavy criticism from its inception as it was regarded as a type of colonial government by the UN in the wake of Aristide’s abrupt forced departure from power, following major national protests and violence. At the time, there were persistent accusations that the U.S., Canada and France had a role in the Haitian head of state’s ouster.
Brazil has provided the military commanders for MINUSTAH along with a significant number of its forces over the past seven years. Brasilia has reportedly deployed 1,266 army and navy troops to MINUSTAH,[2] but, in the aftermath of the massive January 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti, the Brazilian Congress approved a request to send 1,300 additional troops to the Caribbean country to help with relief operations.[3]
In January 2006, there was a bizarre incident in which MINUSTAH’s commander, Lieutenant General Urano Teixeira da Matta, committed suicide while in his hotel room in Port-au-Prince. In cables published by Wikileaks, Dominican President Leonel Fernandez told State Department Assistant Secretary Patrick Duddy that he suspected that Teixeira had been assassinated by a paramilitary group, possibly led by Guy Philippe, a renowned Haitian cutpurse and rebel leader with a good deal of political clout.[4] MINUSTAH’s current commander is Major General Luiz Eduardo Ramos Pereira, also from Brazil.
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