The Poor are Getting Poorer
LIFE for the poor is not getting better in South Africa. While economic growth and empowerment is always on government’s lips, ordinary citizens aren’t benefiting. In South Africa more than 90 percent of black people live in poverty and this isn’t getting any better, according to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA).
Press Statement: CIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE, PEOPLE-CENTERED BUDGET 20 February 2018
Press Statement: CIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE, PEOPLE-CENTERED BUDGET 20 FEBRUARY 2018 PRESS RELEASE CIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE, PEOPLE-CENTERED BUDGET Broad collective of socio-economic rights organisations offer example of a budget which takes ordinary South Africans seriously. Minister Gigaba will be asked to make hard, but essential budget choices in his first budget speech in Parliament […]
SPII Talk Newsletter 4th Quarter October – December 2017
During this period, the South African government and its parastatals were plagued by the exposure of numerous scandals, including allegations of state capture and conflicts of interest. Many of these claims were substantiated by the publication of a string of emails between state officials and the Gupta family, in an expose which came to be […]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Realising the Right to a Basic Education in South Africa
Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa South Africa’s Constitution places great emphasis on the inclusion of socio-economic rights, which among other things, seek to ensure that the fundamental needs of the people are meaningfully protected and advanced following generations of colonial and apartheid-era injustices and inequality. The realisation of these rights are necessary for the establishment of a society based […]
Press Release: CIVIL SOCIETY HUMAN RIGHTS BUDGET
PEOPLE SHOULD BE AT THE HEART OF MINISTER’S BUDGET, NOT COST CUTTING Minister Malusi Gigaba delivered the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) at National Parliament tomorrow. The MTBPS is a crucial part of government’s budget cycle, and will include all adjustments and reallocations to the national budget. It is vital that the minister does […]
SPII STATEMENT ON THE MASS PROTEST ACTION TAKING PLACE ON FRIDAY 07 APRIL 2017
SPII supports the peaceful protestors who are demonstrating their anger and frustration at the state of our economy and the crisis of governance that is impacting upon all South African’s hope for a better life. The fulfilment of socio-economic rights remains central to building the equal, prosperous, democratic society that our liberation movements fought so […]
Press Statement: CIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE, PEOPLE-CENTERED BUDGET
20 FEBRUARY 2018 PRESS RELEASE CIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE, PEOPLE-CENTERED BUDGET Broad collective of socio-economic rights organisations offer example of a budget which takes ordinary South Africans seriously. Minister Gigaba will be asked to make hard, but essential budget choices in his first budget speech in Parliament tomorrow. But the Minister’s task will be to […]
Daily Maverick: Budget 2018: Higher education gets R57bn in Budget slated as anti-poor
Writes Creg Nicolson quoting Isobel Frye; Beginning his speech, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba said the Budget had prioritised the country’s most pressing issues: “educating our youth, protecting the vulnerable and investing in enablers of inclusive growth”. He allocated a total of R324-billion expenditure on higher education over the next three years, including an extra R57-billion […]
School funding: South Africa can learn from the world
By Birgit Weyss, Nurina Allly and Daniel McLaren Some countries have managed to improve outcomes for their most disadvantaged learners In previous articles we have suggested that South Africa’s school funding model is perpetuating rather than redressing an unequal education system. We showed that poorer and more rural provinces allocate less funds per learner than richer […]
SPII Talk Newsletter 3rd Quarter July – September 2017
SPII has always protested against the level of the three poverty lines since adoption in 2012, compared to other studies that consider the cost of a decent standard of living, such as that published monthly by PACSA. The three poverty lines in 2015 were the food poverty line (the absolute basic survivalist sum needed for […]
