It’s right to be angry about a white student peeing on a black student’s books, but what about poor people who have to live close to urine and faeces
It is estimated that gold worth $1.5 billion is smuggled annually out of Zimbabwe but this is only the tip of what has led to chronic poverty
African governments face civil unrest from people who are hungrier and poorer because of the pandemic, war in Ukraine, climate pressures on food systems and poor policy decisions
Vulnerable families depend on the delivery of essential services and safety nets to survive
The government has finally started to recognise the importance of SMMEs in job creation, the business bounce-back scheme being a case in point
Persistently high joblessness, the budget notes, has emerged as a key weakness in economic performance
This year’s budget will be a balancing act, but the treasury needs to prioritise restoring South Africans economic agency
The president promised that the state will act on the findings of the Zondo commission and vowed to cut red tape to facilitate job creation
A basic income grant could add 0.5% to GDP growth by 2025, according to a report commissioned by the National Economic Development and Labour Council.
For the next three months we all must critically engage with the education sector to halt the flood of a generation slipping through.
Government and public entities are too timid in their transformation drive and could do much more to raise black people from poverty
Here’s how the EU is continuing to support women and girls worldwide
There were high expectations that Enoch Godongwana, the Minister of Finance, would signal in the medium term budget policy statement how government planned to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on the health system
Unimaginable levels of poverty in far-flung rural villages in South Africa are not being addressed by local councillors who are supposed to help improve the lives of residents in their wards
Projects in North West and Limpopo grow hope of surviving climate change
Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori mountains are all retreating faster than the global mean
In the face of their families’ poverty, young men, persuaded by the prospect of wealth or education, travel to Europe with their older female sponsors only to be trafficked for sex
The Climate Justice Charter Movement has critiqued the manifestos of the main parties contesting the local government elections and found them ‘shallow’
The Life Esidimeni tragedy is a stark illustration of how people’s socioeconomic standing affects the mental health services they are able to access
Social grants are by far the largest facet of South Africa’s social protection system in terms of the number of people covered, according to the World Bank
Empowering the poor should be what underlies every debate and policy adopted in South Africa
Cosatu meets to deliberate on its support for the governing party in the upcoming local government elections
Some 36% of Gauteng households live in poverty, according to a new survey, with poverty levels having shot up during the course of the pandemic
Previously, the government had said people aged between 18 and 35 years would be eligible to be vaccinated only from September
In Madlala, the police and army broke into homes in an operation to retrieve stolen goods. After they left, a woman lay dead in a pool of her blood behind a shack
The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s QU Dongyu says food systems have to be transformed to make them more resilient and inclusive.
It is becoming clear SA needs a BIG, as many ANC cabinet members, opposition parties and experts agree. But there is still dissent from some quarters
The social, political and economic problems of poor governance need to be fixed so that public resources are managed and distributed equally
Rebuilding is crucial, but democracies cannot allow themselves to be held to ransom by the destruction of anarchists in dictating where public funds should be spent
Those of us living in relatively comfortable homes may have been rattled and shaken up but the real deep problem in this country is inequality
The perpetrators of apartheid were treated with wisdom and forgiveness, but is the same true of how we are treating current leaders?
This is not a protest, it is a ripple effect of poverty
