Poverty
Ramaphosa urges Eastern Cape ANC leadership to tackle poverty in province
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the closing address at the party's provincial elective conference in East London.
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Agri SA: Sector has great potential to create jobs
This follows Quarterly Labour Force Survey data that shows the unemployment rate has risen to 35.3%in the last quarter of 2021.
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Millionaires join non-profits in wealth tax appeal
The proposal from a network of NGOs, social movements and pro-tax millionaires follows separate reports showing that the world's wealthiest people have grown richer during the now two-year-old pandemic.
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Music, dance and fire: The ‘Slum Party’ bringing hope to Lagos
For three years, a collective of 10 young Nigerian performers has sought to improve the lives of Orowonshoki's residents through dance.
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CT's new mayoral committee sets sights on ending power cuts, poverty
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis unveiled his team on Monday, saying that members had a strong mandate from residents to end power cuts in the city over time, to invest more into community safety and to fight for greater control over passenger rail in the metro.
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Poor citizens in Africa threatened by accelerating climate change: UN
In a report ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the UN highlighted Africa's "disproportionate vulnerability" last year from food insecurity, poverty and population displacement.
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Nxesi: Govt consistent in fighting unemployment, poverty & inequality
Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi reiterated that government is doing all it can to improve the high youth unemployment rate in the country. Nxesi was speaking on 14 October 2021 during the launch of the second phase of the employment stimulus. The employment stimulus was launched by President Cyril Ramaphosa in October 2020 in response to the high number of job losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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KENNETH MOKGATLHE: This is why local government elections are so important
Kenneth Mokgatlhe writes that local government is the intimate sphere or aspect of government closest to the people. It is where residents are supposed to have a direct political relationship with the government, but that has not been happening.
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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 government to do everything it can to stop the jobs crisis from turning into a social crisis.
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Extreme heat caused by urbanisation, global warming threatening cities: study
In recent decades, hundreds of millions of people have moved from rural areas to cities where temperatures are generally higher because of surfaces such as asphalt which trap heat and a lack of vegetation.
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Scientists in troubled DR Congo pursue research despite conflict, poverty
Earnest scholarship is common to universities and colleges in many parts of the world -- but here, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the quest for knowledge has come at an exceptionally high cost.
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Outrage in Uganda after MPs get 25 mn euros to buy cars
Each of the 529 lawmakers were handed 200 million shillings (48,000 euros, $56,500) to get new vehicles at a time when Covid-19 cases are surging.
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'Train of Hope' brings healthcare to South Africa's poor
Despite being the most advanced economy on the continent, South Africa grapples with widespread poverty and high unemployment.
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Pandemic plunges 100 mn more workers into poverty: UN
The ILO's annual World Employment and Social Outlook report indicated that the planet would be 75 million jobs short at the end of this year compared to if the pandemic had not occurred.
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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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Former Robben Island prisoner: 'This is not the South Africa we fought for'
Sparks Mlilwana said it hurt to see so many South Africans still subjected to poverty and inequality and before he closed his eyes for the last time, he would like to see this change.
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New report lays bare problems with govt's free electricity access policy
The study interrogated how the situation had worsened over the past two decades, tracking large gaps between the funding provided and the number of households who benefited from it.
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Gangsterism, hunger & COVID-19: Cape Town communities’ triple threat to life
While the country grapples with COVID-19 that’s wreaked havoc on employment and the economy, residents in Elsies River and Tafelsig are dealing with more than one pandemic.
