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ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa at the party's Eastern Cape elective conference on 9 May 2022. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

Poverty

Ramaphosa urges Eastern Cape ANC leadership to tackle poverty in province

By Nkosikhona Duma

President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the closing address at the party's provincial elective conference in East London.

  • FILE: Thirty-eight thousand more jobs were created in the agriculture sector during the fourth quarter of last year compared to quarter three. Picture: 123rf.com

    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.

    58 days ago
  • FILE: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is one of the richest people in the world. Picture: AFP

    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.

    128 days ago
  • A dancer spits fire during a slum party at Oworonshoki district of Lagos on 27 November 2021. Picture: AFP

    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.

    175 days ago
  • Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis announced the city’s new Mayoral Committee. Picture: Kevin Brandt/Eyewitness News

    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.

    185 days ago
  • FILE: More than 100 million extremely poor people in Africa are threatened by accelerating climate change. Picture: © wollwerth/123rf.com.

    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.

    220 days ago
  • 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.

    225 days ago
  • Over 800 people have cast their vote at the Hector Peterson Library in Lwandle, Cape Town. Over 2000 people are expected to vote at this station today. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN.

    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.

    225 days ago
  • Cosatu members marching in the Johannesburg CBD on Thursday, 7 October 2021. Picture: Boikhutso Ntsoko/Eyewitness News.

    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.

    232 days ago
  • FILE: The city of Dhaka in Bangladesh on 12 April 2021. Picture: Munir uz zaman/AFP

    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.

    234 days ago
  • Malawian peacekeepers of The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) stand guard outside the Emmanuel Butsili Catholic church in Beni, on 27 June 2021, after a makeshift bomb exploded, injuring two just an hour before a children's Confirmation ceremony was due to be held. Picture: Sébastien KITSA MUSAYI/AFP

    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.

    294 days ago
  • FILE. Picture: AFP

    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.

    307 days ago
  • A nurse for Transnet-Phelophepa Healthcare Train points out the window as patients sit in a queue at the Dube Station in Soweto, on June 22, 2021. The Transnet-Phelophepa consists of custom-built trains that deliver primary healthcare to remote areas of South Africa. Picture: Phill Magakoe / AFP

    '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.

    338 days ago
  • Picture: Eyewitness News

    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.

    359 days ago
  • Clarkes Estate residents in Elsies River, Cape Town receive their meals from community activists on 22 April 2020. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News.

    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.

    364 days ago
  • A view of a guard tower and Table Mountain behind some of the former prison buildings on Robben Island. The prison is now a museum dedicated to showing visitors the brutal conditions under which the prisoners lived, but also how important the island became as a base to counter the apartheid regime. Picture: RODGER BOSCH/AFP

    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.

    395 days ago
  • Picture: Pexels.

    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.

    402 days ago
  • FILE: Members of the SANDF gather outside blocks of flats in a known gang area in Ottery, Cape Town, during a Fiela Operation conducted during the early hours of the morning. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    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.

    429 days ago
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Former Transnet Group CEO, Siyabonga Gama (third from left), and his co-accused appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court on 27 May 2022 following their arrest on the same day. Picture: Nkosikhona Duma/Eyewitness News

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