Oxfam report scratches the surface of global inequality solutions
Report on the divide between rich and poor makes weak suggestions about how to fix it.
Inequality
Students contest the status quo
Reparation and redistribution to stop generational inequality underlies the protests.
A national minimum wage is a powerful tool to break the poverty cycle
Brazil demonstrated that the deliberate use of their NMW to break the poverty and inequality barriers led to a sustained reduction in those levels.
South Africa must tackle dominant firms to achieve better wealth distribution
Germany’s competition regime is permeated by economic values of fair competition which ensure large companies have special obligations.
How the search for a national minimum wage laid bare South Africa’s faultlines
In contemporary SA, the gap between current wages and a living wage is vast and simply too large to be bridged in a short time, writes Imraan Valodia.
When CEOs call themselves activists and activists become CEOs
It shouldn’t surprise us that CEOs earn far more than workers, but what should is that CEOs have now become part of activism culture in South Africa.
Black people most optimistic about SA, white people the most dissatisfied – study
A study conducted by the Pew Research Centre says two-thirds of South Africans agree that developing education should be a priority for the country.
Africa’s 21st century moment? Not yet
On the surface Africa is democratic but underneath it is a ‘man-eat-man’ society, writes Jason Musyoka.
Inequalities increase as fees rise
South Africa is trudging California’s ruined road of tertiary education to inequality and exclusion
SA’s children poor and malnourished
A new report shows that almost two-thirds of South Africa’s preschoolers are not getting the health and nutrition they need.
Uganda attempts to treat the malignant disease of inequality
With almost a quarter of Ugandan households spending over 10% of their income on medical treatment, the goal of universal healthcare seems far off.
World Bank finds itself in a Gini fix
The institution has tried to minimise income inequality in South Africa, with ludicrous results, writes Dick Forslund.
Krones SA accused of racial discrimination
German filling and packaging company Krones has launched an investigation into accounts of racial discrimination at Krones SA.
Civil rights déjà vu hits US South
Fifty years since the Selma march to demand voting rights for African-Americans in the South, new laws could disenfranchise poor black people anew.
The media exclude young voices
Through something as simple as a list of requirements, media companies are safeguarding the status quo
New ideas on Africa’s inequality
Ruling elites that behave like private corporations don’t help the continent.
How to square the inequality circle
State spend and taxing the rich brings down inequality but it will take more and better jobs to reduce it further.
It doesn’t end with Piketty – five policies that could reduce inequality
Reducing income inequality and giving everyone in South Africa a chance to succeed will entrench democracy.
MEC: Gauteng’s townships need huge transformation
Gauteng MEC of Economic Development Lebogang Maile says the country’s large inequality gap is what contributes to criminality in townships.
I am Charlie Hebdo, just like I am everyone
If we are all Charlie Hebdo because we do not stand for media that is oppressed, then we must all be oppressed as a result, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee
World Bank’s flawed report kicks SA’s poor in the teeth
The institution has failed to retract a document that neoliberal politicians and commentators are using to advocate state spending cuts.
Three million lifted out of poverty
The World Bank has praised South Africa’s fiscal system, but with a number of reservations.
Inequality mocks SA’s freedom
Oxfam’s latest report highlights the travesty of inequality and warns of dire and corrosive consequences to society.
Progressive education is failing us
This system of learning has seemed complicit in the widening gap between rich and poor.
There’s more to getting maid in SA
Dealing with a 350-year-old problem might entail employers recognising that certain chores domestic workers are expected to do are degrading.
Unite both the head and the hand
We can overcome education models that still entrench social divisions.
Poor still losing out in African boom
Inequality on the continent has grown in the past decade as tax systems have failed to redistribute wealth, says Christian Aid.
Move with the times and you’ll defeat inequality
Technology has exacerbated inequality. But we should prepare ourselves for an increasingly tech-driven world, an act that could eradicate the problem.
The 85 richest people in the world are still mostly men
Women need only seven seats, mostly on the bottom deck, on the £1-trillion double-decker bus revealed by Oxfam this week.
SA needs to bridge the gap – literally
Leaders may talk about inequality, but boosting infrastructure is a concrete way to change things, says Nikiwe Bikitsha.
Oxfam finds 85 elites as rich as 3.5-billion people
As the World Economic Forum starts in Davos, a development charity claims that growing inequality has been driven by a "power grab" by wealthy elites.
Habib: Elites, cut a deal now
Professor Adam Habib’s new book addresses inequality in South Africa and warns our economic elites to ‘compromise now or risk losing everything’.
