Inequality
Cosatu: Govt failed to protect SA workforce from poverty, flaring inequality
As the world commemorates the global day for decent work, thousands of workers affiliated to Cosatu across the country have taken to the streets to urge...
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Ramaphosa: More needs to be done to incorporate women into economy
In a bid to tackle inequality in key sectors of the economy, the president launched the Women Economic Assembly in Modderfontein on Wednesday.
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Survey shows quality of life is declining in Gauteng
Until last year, the quality of life in the province was showing signs of improvement, but the pandemic reversed this progress.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: How do we benefit from mining while addressing its inequality?
As South Africa we too now face a challenge to our economic survival. Mining is vital to our economy, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
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YONELA DIKO: Mbeki must let the opinions on land go
Thabo Mbeki may well belong to a generation that learnt to accept that as long as white people are alright, all is alright with the world, writes Yonela Diko.
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UKZN graduate dispels myths around 'blesser-blessee' relationships
Nomazulu Singata who graduated with a Master of Arts degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal conducted a study aimed at understanding ‘blesser-blessee’ relationships through the perspectives and experiences of students.
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NGOs highlight state of hunger in SA during lockdown
The United Nations report said that close to 690 million people went hungry in 2019, 10 million more than the year before. Asia and Africa accounted for the majority of hungry people across the world.
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MCEBO DLAMINI: On the indignity of black labour
The kinds of jobs black people have to do shows the dearth of dignity for them in South Africa, writes Mcebo Dlamini.
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Women march across Australia against sexual violence and inequality
The #March4Justice rallies are being held in more than 40 Australian cities and towns, with a major demonstration in Canberra following allegations of sexual assault in the nation's parliament.
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Int Women’s Day should serve as reminder of GBV, inequality: activists
Director of the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Abused Women and Children Bernadine Bachar said equality for women remains a far cry.
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Current policies bring little change in SA's poverty & inequality levels - study
A study conducted by the NDA and the University of Johannesburg has found that policy documents intended to eradicate poverty were not in short supply.
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Saftu plans mass action, wants overhaul of political, economic, social systems
In a virtual address with leaders of affiliate unions on Thursday night, secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi said that the current education system made the youth unemployable and therefore susceptible to crime and joining gangs.
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ANALYSIS: What young people have to say about race and inequality in SA
A study has found that students feel a generational responsibility to challenge racial stereotypes.
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ANALYSIS: How SA can balance control of COVID-19 and avoid economic disaster
South Africa's management of the COVID-19 pandemic must now shift from a centrally regulated approach to one that enables participation and compliance by communities, workers and businesses.
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RAMAPHOSA: Let COVID-19 crisis help SA emerge as a better, more equal country
President Cyril Ramaphosa says that while South Africa has achieved much in the 26 years since the country's first democratic elections in 1994, poverty and inequality continue to stalk our land and that the COVID-19 lockdown has forced us to confront this reality.
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Ramaphosa: Lockdown has revealed fault line of poverty, inequality in SA
In his weekly newsletter, President Cyril Ramaphosa has conceded that the lockdown has exacerbated long-standing issues around poverty, inequality and unemployment in the country.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: This is South Africa’s moment of social solidarity
The lockdown has to have the buy in of the citizenry if we are going to be successful in flattening the curve. Compliance will take time and further effort, writes Judith February.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: Empowering women fundamental for a prosperous Africa
President Cyril Ramaphosa hopes to achieve many things during South Africa's chairship of the African Union, with the economic empowerment of the continent's women a top priority.
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Global inequality: The rich-poor & women-men divide
The number of billionaires has doubled in the past decade and the world's 22 richest men now have more wealth than all the women in Africa, according to Oxfam's 'Time to Care' report.
