Poverty
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...
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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. #COVID19 #Gangsterism #CapeTown
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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.
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A crying shame: Rise in abandonment of babies during COVID-19
South Africa is seeing a rise in the number of babies and children either being abandoned or given up for adoption by parents struggling to survive the devastating impact of COVID-19. Eyewitness News spoke to Door of Hope, an NGO helping abandoned children, and a desperate mother who almost gave up her baby for adoption.
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Pandemic tips more people into extreme poverty in Nigeria's Lagos
Before the pandemic, nearly half of Nigeria's 200 million people were living on less than $1.90 a day, rivalling India for the world's highest number of poor.
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Warmer world linked to poor pregnancy results: study
Such outcomes - closely linked to poverty, especially in the tropics - will likely increase with global warming, especially during more frequent and intense heatwaves, they reported in BMJ, a medical journal.
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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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Pandemic could push 115 mn into extreme poverty in 2020: World Bank
And the bank's new report estimates that by 2021, 150 million could be living below the extreme poverty threshold of less than $1.90 a day.
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ANALYSIS: How social security could make life better in SA after COVID-19
Emergency relief measures were operational for six months and are due to end soon. But the impacts of COVID-19 will be felt long after.
