Home | South Africa Workers at Maclear Hospital in Nqanqarhu in the Eastern Cape have embarked on a go-slow They are complaining about heavy workloads due to severe staff shortages The workers claim they have raised the matter with the Health Department in the province The go-slow at Maclear Hospital has been continuing for over two weeks A representative from the Public Servants Association of South Africa maternity and mental units at the hospital are severely short-staffed “The functions of this hospital are more than the establishment They introduced the maternity unit without an establishment Now we have to take workers from these two units they introduced without sitting us down and telling us They’re just forcing us to work.” Patients are also complaining about poor service at the institution says the deplorable condition of ablution facilities is a cause for concern “We have a complaint about the poor service we receive here That does not sit well with us concerning the hospital Everything in this hospital is not up to standard.” says they are aware of the action by workers “I received a call last Friday saying that I must come to the hospital Yet I’m not sure whether the go-slow had already taken place So in the written grievances that they have given to me they said there is a shortage of staff.” the Provincial Health Department has promised the workers that their grievances will be addressed “We have just become aware of the go-slow by the nurses We are supposed to be having about nine minimum doctors because it’s a district hospital we have an advert that is out where we are recruiting nurses So the ease that we are going to see is when it’s the 1st of April when there’s a budget that has been loaded for the financial year 25 to 2026 So that will then ease and ensure that we quicken the process of recruitment so Maclear is gonna be part and parcel of that.” While the Health Department awaits budget allocation to address the issues the workers at Maclear Hospital have vowed to continue with the go-slow Please check your email and enter your one time pin below:   Open in Gmail Sorry there was an error loading the audio One person has been hospitalised and several were injured after a donkey attacked a group of people on Wednesday in Nqanqarhu (formerly known as Maclear) in the Eastern Cape The Department of Rural Development and Agriculture urged anybody who the donkey had bitten to come forward. They said the animal exhibited signs of rabies and was reported to have bitten several individuals, including a child.advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads Members of the South African Police Service euthanised the donkey after veterinarians from the department tried unsuccessfully to do so A state veterinarian in the Elundini district said that after the police euthanised the donkey samples from it were sent to a laboratory for testing were treated at a clinic for bites from the donkey authorities were trying to confirm that another person who had been bitten by the donkey had been hospitalised “The hospital has also been contacted and informed about the situation,” said Kyle According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases’ (NICD’s) fact sheet on rabies vaccine-preventable viral disease that causes damage to the brain and spinal cord in infected animals and humans” A zoonotic disease can be transmitted between animals and humans Kyle said every effort was being made to locate everyone who had been bitten by the donkey so they could receive rabies post-exposure prophylaxis — a series of vaccinations and medication that can prevent the development of rabies if administered promptly after exposure. There is no treatment for rabies in humans.advertisementDon't want to see this? Remove ads Rabies in animals may present as strange and aggressive behaviour and a generally unwell appearance The animals can hallucinate and may snap or bite at imaginary objects Common signs and symptoms of rabies in humans include discomfort or pain at the site of the wound This rapidly progresses to signs of neurological dysfunction People with rabies can also display hypersalivation aerophobia (fear of air) and hydrophobia (fear of water) Some people may have localised weakness and paralytic syndromes which eventually progress to coma and death There have been outbreaks of rabies in the Eastern Cape 430 canine cases were registered in Nelson Mandela Bay The NICD said three confirmed cases of the disease in humans had occurred in the Eastern Cape this year a suspected case of rabies was reported in a child from Lusikisiki The child was bitten by a donkey and fell ill with rabies-like symptoms ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " This article may contain graphic and/or adult content unsuitable for minors and sensitive readers The Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform (DRDAR) urges anyone who may have been bitten by a donkey in Nqanqarhu (formerly Maclear) to come forward and get a Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shot An alert for residents living in the Elundini Local Municipality was issued after a donkey exhibiting signs of Rabies including aggression and unusual behaviour was reported to have bitten several individuals The donkey was subsequently put down by members of the South African Police Services after DRDAR Veterinarians were unable to euthanize it due to its aggressive behaviour said the animal suffered and posed a risk to the community She said animal samples were taken and sent to a laboratory for testing At least two people with bite wounds from the donkey went to the local clinic in town Dr Kyle said they have unconfirmed reports of others bitten by the same donkey who did not seek medical care Dr Kyle said every effort is underway to locate these individuals so that they can get treated as soon as possible Residents must vaccinate their pets for Rabies and refrain from feeding wild animals an exclusive podcast on the life of Vicki Terblanche Dive into the expansive world of motoring with Naresh Maharaj Join Mark Marshall as he shares his extraordinary encounters with everything from bees to reptiles i The Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform is calling all individuals that might have been bitten by a donkey exhibiting signs of rabies at Nqanqarhu formerly Maclear The department says the donkey was aggressive and exhibited unusual behaviour It bit at least two people who went to the local clinic The Department’s Communication Officer says reports suggest more people were bitten and did not seek medical help Manyisana says the donkey was put down by the police after veterinarians were unable to euthanize it due to its aggressive behaviour Samples taken from the donkey have been sent to a laboratory for testing We’re thrilled to invite you to Literature Matters Note: Event details can change. Please visit the unit’s website for the latest information about this event.  The new Eastern Cape Health MEC, Ntandokazi Capa says budget constraints is the cause for staff shortages at the Maclear Hospital in Nqanqarhu The Maclear hospital is facing a number of difficulties including staff shortages and lack of medicine A total of 16 clinics feeds into hospital – overwhelming its capacity The hospital also has a shortage of Pharmacists The Health MEC says the department will find ways to address these challenges “So I saw it on the news yesterday and I felt it was important for me to come and get all the necessary information of what really transpired and what is it that we can do to turn this situation around As you know there are serious budget constraints in the department hence it is very difficult to employ.” who was also allegedly raped while in a hospital ward “The incident that happened in 2021 is something that the hospital is aware of and it was reported to the police because is something that happened while the patient was still in casualty But it is an allegation is so something that happened the representative of Public Services Association (PSA) is calling for a speedy response to the challenges facing the hospital “The organogram that is used here is not for a district hospital that is compromise service delivery because we are short staffed We need more staff to service this community We do have a theatre but the theatre is not working due to not having staff for theatre.” The department will visit the family of the 25-year-old who was allegedly raped and died on arrival at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha in 2021 where she was transferred to after the incident EC Health MEC Ntandokazi Capa visits Maclear Hospital: Eastern Cape police confiscated 38 pistols and five rifles from a group of people from a taxi organisation who gathered at the Nelson Mandela Hospital in Mthatha on Thursday Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says staff called the police after the group failed to adhere to the intervention by private security leaving staff and patients feeling intimidated She says the incident is related to the taxi violence that broke out earlier this week in Nqanqarhu (Formerly Maclear) and Mthatha Police searched the men and confiscated the 43 firearms They are investigating two murder and 12 attempted murder cases related to the taxi violence that broke out this week Last month, warring Eastern Cape taxi associations signed a "peace pact" which now seems to be under threat Police in the Eastern Cape are investigating three murder and 13 attempted murder cases in Nqanqarhu This after three taxi drivers were gunned down in violence between two taxi factions yesterday The 13 were critically wounded and have been transferred from the Macler Hospital to the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital “Taxi owners and bosses came with their vehicles and we learnt that one died on the scene and the other one died on arrival here My doctors and everyone were on board actually and I would like to commend my staff they showed a lot of character because there were lot of security personnel and a lot of guns they did very well because we managed to treat people that were shot.” Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Maclear: “Consumers do not buy what you sell They buy what has value to them” - Peter Drucker The crucial first step is knowing who our target audience is and what has real meaning for them brand management is the art of creating and sustaining the brand through the consistent delivery of brand value at each touch point both within the organisation and externally We also work on a range of different topics telephone calls and emails; but we also aim to make some time for fun Maclear: We started 2016 with the roll-out of our revamped website which is focused on the consumer’s journey: to find the right tyre and the right dealer for tyre fitment We have a number of exciting activations planned for the year including new product introductions Maclear: Consumers rarely think about tyres until they need to buy new ones Although they are recognised as crucial to vehicle safety consumers generally have a limited understanding that one tyre can be safer than another as the technology is not visible to the eye Maclear: We do believe there is still value in mainstream media. Media is certainly evolving; mainstream media is changing and digital channels have added a new, exciting dimension. The Goodyear Facebook and Twitter pages focus on relevant interesting content that encourages sharing and conversation Maclear: Goodyear is focused on innovation and forward thinking. The company has been coming up with new ideas for over 117 years, such as the first tyre on the moon in the early 1970s. A further example is Goodyear’s latest concept tyre, the Eagle-360 developed with the autonomous vehicles of the future in mind which was recently showcased at the Geneva International Motor Show Tracy Maclear is the marketing and brand manager at Goodyear South Africa She holds a bachelor of commerce honours degree majoring in marketing strategic and financial management from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth She started her career at Deloitte and has worked for Goodyear for over 18 years in marketing and sales positions including a seven-year assignment at Goodyear's Europe Middle East and Africa regional headquarters located in Belgium Choose a topic below and thereafter view all articles on the topic using the "Next >" button or swiping left Choose a topic below and thereafter view all articles on the topic using the "Next >" button or the keyboard right arrow key In a packed rally at Chisitu Primary School Ground on Friday Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) aspirant Member of Parliament for.. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page elliptical memoir Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets begins with the revelation of a fact buried for almost five decades Maclear learned via DNA testing that the father who had raised her One might expect that this bombshell would spark an investigation into the mystery of her paternity but Maclear turns immediately to the mystery of her mother "My silver-haired mother" — not her father — "became unknown to me," Maclear writes "She had a big story to tell...a story that she struggled to express — or had no wish to express — in her adoptive language the Japanese painter and gallerist Yoko (Mariko) Koide had "never really liked stories." But the man Maclear thought to be her father the British foreign correspondent and documentary filmmaker Michael Maclear had passed on a love of shaping narrative and asking questions to "make a story legible." Kyo Maclear turned that inheritance into a career — she is the author of 19 children's books But in the face of the unravelling of the foundational narrative of her life — and in acknowledgement of Yoko's resistance to storytelling in particular to telling the story of who Maclear's biological father was — Maclear turns to a different way of understanding her world and connecting with her mother: gardening This turn to the natural world in some ways recalls Maclear's approach in Birds Art Life in which she took up urban birdwatching for a shift in perspective and makes sense in light of the fact that the author had recently completed a doctorate in environmental humanities before her father's death Maclear opens Unearthing by juxtaposing her mother's fluency in plants with her own lack of knowledge: "Ma was a gardener I saw only a thin green blur." Maclear needs to learn how to speak her mother's "wild and green" language if she wants to get her to loosen her hold on this secret Maclear gives herself over to her small garden in her Toronto yard digging deep into the soil as she attempts to trace the roots of her story By pairing the untangling of her family tree with an appreciation of the entanglement of the natural world Maclear meditates on our desire to impose clear-cut boundaries on what comprises kinship and inheritance and reminds us of our belonging to larger ecosystems Unearthing forms a unique take on the paternity mystery memoir one that eschews a predetermined narrative arc for a wide-ranging exploration of what it means to be a family Unearthing unfolds in sections that take their titles from the names of Japanese sekki or "small seasons"; each section represents a span of months between 2019 and 2021 as Maclear worked to make sense of her family tree But the short chapters that fall under these headings jump between the present and the past sometimes dipping back to examine shards of her parents' lives and contentious relationship sometimes to relate anecdotes from her own childhood Maclear weaves in passages about plants — the palms in a public greenhouse she visited weekly after her father's death the "shaggy fern and stiff-postured horsetail" in her mother's garden the thyme she "uprooted" from her own yard to plant on her father's grave The book's nonlinear effect sometimes recalls prose poetry such as one made up of two short paragraphs that opens with the thought experiment: "Suppose every family has a secret kiosk of surprise kin ready to rush out at any moment." In other chapters and Jamaica Kincaid for inspiration and reflection she borrows from Joe Brainard's iconic memoir I Remember with her own series of rememberings; she even constructs her own herbarium Unearthing's capaciousness and wanderings both mimic Yoko's conversational style — full of "sly segues," as she parcels out bits of information about Maclear's conception — and serve as a reminder that "not everything can be woven into a pattern some dots don't have a line to connect them," as Maclear writes to herself in the voice of her mother it can at times feel as though Maclear is writing two different books that don't quite synthesize — one on family She even acknowledges this: "It is possible that making the garden an extension of this story is wrong And making the story an extension of the garden is also wrong." bringing in the botanical allows Maclear to imbue her family's story — specifically the story of why both her mother and father would choose to keep her parentage a secret for so long — with a generous The plant world reminds us of our interconnectedness of the porousness of the boundaries between individual living things "To grow something is to consider what will still be here long after you have moved on but also to touch the history of what was here before," Maclear writes of her garden The same might be said of having children and telling stories Maclear pushes for a new understanding of family "one that could embrace the ways we stretched far and farther." Kristen Martin is working on a book on American orphanhood for Bold Type Books. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The Baffler, and elsewhere. She tweets at @kwistent Become an NPR sponsor This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. By Marie Curie, Marie Curie Please join us for a Conversation with Christy MacLear Vice Chairman of Art Agency Partners/Sotheby's MacLear's work is focused on creating an advisory practice for artists She will be joined in conversation by William N Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies & Director of the International Center for Finance Christy MacLear has spent much of her career in the art world but her approach is fundamentally that of an MBA “I’m a business strategist who works in the cultural realm,” she said MacLear is vice chairman of Art Agency Partners a subsidiary of the venerable auction house Sotheby’s that helps artists manage their financial and artistic legacies She spoke as part of Yale SOM’s Colloquium on Business and Society had a series of roles in which she reinvented the business model for artistic assets in order to make them financially sustainable she served as executive director of the Glass House that includes the architect Philip Johnson’s iconic structure as well as other buildings and a collection of art is that even the most passionate architecture fan would visit a historic house museum only once “The business model for historical sites was broken,” she said But she saw that the Glass House could reflect the central role of Johnson and his partner “It wasn’t just about visitation,” she said “It could be the center for modernism for the National Trust for Historic Preservation—making the mission one of continuous relevance and driving return visitation.” MacLear later was named the first CEO of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Rauschenberg’s estate had substantial assets MacLear led the sales of some real estate and other artists’ work The next step was determine how the foundation would make use of its assets Rauschenberg hadn’t left instructions for the use of his wealth But the values expressed in his own life served as a guide designing the poster for the first Earth Day We developed all of our grantmaking through that lens.” The experience of developing a mission for the Rauschenberg Foundation has informed MacLear’s work at Art Agency Partners where part of her role is to help living artists think through their priorities for their own legacies It is an increasingly important question as the prices of contemporary art balloon and major artists of the late 20th century reach old age “We’re at a moment in history where artists have a great deal of wealth,” she said “You have a set of baby boomer artists who are aging and the use of their work and wealth can be directed more clearly by them and their families.” While eyebrow-raising prices get the most headlines the art world is going through a series of transformative changes could change the way in which art is authenticated And artistic institutions are starting to grapple with the historic bias toward women artists and artists of color monetarily-backed intentions to do this,” she said Such efforts will start to carry through to the rest of the art world the featured performers at the Sebastian Centennial Celebration Concert at Riverview Park on Friday June 7th He is a multi-talented song writer and performing artist who has recorded in L.A Renee is a musical artist in her own right as well who In the 90's they joined forces in marriage Four years ago they decided to make Sebastian their home They'll explain why they decided to settle on the Treasure Coast and talk to us about their music and lives Learn more about the Sebastian Centennial Celebration and the Concert at Riverview Park at: sebastian100.com. And find out more about Tom's life and his music on his website at: maclear.net Then we'll talk with L’Quincy Pryor, the founder and Executive Director of YouthServ Academy The school has been offering a challenging academic program for middle and high school students since 2020 not only on providing a traditional education for students but getting them on a path to financial success by giving them real-world skills the school is offering two eight-week camps L’Quincy will tell us about each in detail and about the philosophy of the school he founded Learn more about the summer programs being offered at YouthServ Academy on their website at: youthserv.org You are viewing your 1 free article this month Pushkin imprint ONE has bagged Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets Deputy publisher Laura Macaulay acquired British Commonwealth rights from Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists on behalf of Jackie Kaiser The book will be published in the UK in March 2024 as well as by Scribner in the US and by Knopf in Canada Unearthing is a “masterful” work following Maclear’s discovery of a long-held family secret after she discovered her father was not biologically related to her and her search for the story of her birth The publisher added: “A search interwoven with the seasons Macaulay said: “This masterful work of non-fiction tells the gripping story of one woman’s search for the identity of her birth father interwoven with a personal botanical history It is a bold consideration of human relationships and connections: moving beautiful – I’m delighted to be Kyo Maclear’s UK publisher.”