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The Crucial Role of local CSOs in helping communities reduce poverty 17 April 2018 The Poor are Getting Poorer 28 February 2018
Vulekamali Newsletter Issue 1 2018
IMALI YETHU is a coalition of civil society organisations working with the South African National Treasury to make budget information more accessible, user-friendly and empowering. The following civil society organisations are represented amongst the founding partners of the coalition: Vulekamali Newsletter 1 2018 – Open!
Working Paper 18: Monitoring and Evaluating the Progressive Realisation of the Right to Water and Sanitation in South Africa
The progressive realisation of the right to water and sanitation is provided for in South Africa’s Constitution and the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which was ratified by the state in 2015. The right to sanitation is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution- as opposed to the right to water, which […]
The Crucial Role of local CSOs in helping communities reduce poverty
The unemployment in South Africa went up to 27.1 % in the third quarter of 2016 from 26.6 in the previous period. The number ofeconomically active people who become unemployed due to labour instability is very high. The Department of Education providessafety nets for the poor through supporting meals at school and providing school uniforms.
SPII Talk Newsletter 1st Quarter January – March 2018
SPII Talk Newsletter: South Africa Rebooting It’s been quite an eventful first quarter of the year. The political hangover of the ANC’s 54th conference in December has been felt far and wide. We’ve already seen the fall of a president and the rise of another. And, after months of inaction, the National Prosecuting Authority has […]
Vat Increase
Value Added Tax will be increased to 15% from 1 April 2018. Some say it’s a necessary step to keep the economy on track, but others blame it squarely on State capture and corruption. The big question is: with the majority of South Africans living below the poverty line, how will the poor compensate from […]
Fact Sheet #4 Decent Work in South Africa
THE CONSTITUTION RECOGNISES RIGHTS TO FAIR LABOUR PRACTICES AND TO CHOOSE ONE’S OCCUPATION FREELY BUT SOUTH AFRICA’S RATIFICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (ICESCR) IN 2015, GIVES EVERYBODY THE RIGHT TO DECENT WORK.
Fact Sheet #3- Social Security in South Africa
18 – 59 YEAR OLD ABLE-BODIED WORKING PEOPLE DO NOT RECEIVE GRANTS,AND THE CHILD SUPPORT GRANT FALLS FAR SHORT OF THE AMOUNT NEEDED TO SUPPORT A CHILD IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY. ALTHOUGH,SOCIAL GRANTS HAVE GONE SOME WAY TOWARDS REDUCING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY,THESE ARE NOT ENOUGH WHEN WE LOOK AT THE FIGURES […]
Occasional Paper
Occasional Paper The inclusion of socio-economic rights in South Africa’s first democratic Constitution envisioned the reconstruction and transformation of a divided and deeply unequal society. These socio-economic rights to education, social security, health care, housing, food, water and sanitation, a healthy environment, and land are, crucially, redress for past racial discrimination
