SPII Talk Newsletter 1st Quarter March 2017
In an organizational context, a process of profound and radical change that orients an organization in a new direction and takes it to an entirely different level of effectiveness. Unlike ‘turnaround’ (which implies incremental progress on the same plane) transformation implies a basic change of character and little or no resemblance with the past configuration […]
SPII Talk Newsletter 4th Quarter December 2016
2016 has been a momentous year in relation to wage policy in South Africa,specifically as we see the progress reached on the negotiations on the National Minimum Wage and Labour Relations.The idea of a national minimum wage as one way to address the crippling levels of poverty and inequality in South Africa was contained as […]
SPII Talk Newsletter 3rd Quarter July – September 2016
In this edition of SPII talk, in the context of the Reports launched by SPII concerning Water and Sanitation and a Healthy Environment in September, we explore what our work really means on the ground. With a personal account of the “inter-sectional nature of poverty” by Soweto academic Mawethu Nkosana and a closer look at […]
SPII Talk Newsletter: 10 YEARS OF SPII: A Decade of Change
As the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) marks the first ten years of its existence, we celebrate a decade of research, advocacy, policy influence, and building a network with policy-makers, funders, and more recently, grassroots-level connections. Ten years on, SPII has become a research think-tank with breadth in its scope, footprint, and stakeholders. […]
SPII Talk Newsletter, 1st Quarter, April 2016
The first quarter of this year has been quite eventful mounting scrutiny of the executive in the Constitutional Court, as well as increasing concerns raised about possible cuts in state spending due to dampened economic growth – consequently, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute has been just as robust in its advocacy for social justice. We […]
Basic Needs Basket Workshop: Report 8-9 December 2016
It is widely known that South Africa has one of the world’s highest inequality rates, which has contributed to widespread food insecurity and persistent poverty. The Basic Needs Basket Project grew out of a need to contextualise how poverty, an unstable economy, inflation and increasing food and basic necessities costs affect lower income households and […]
BASIC NEEDS BASKET POLICY BRIEF
The High Cost of Being Poor South African households continue to fight a fierce battle to survive in a year marked by increasing inflation, stationary wages and the escalating scarcity of employment. In a recent report released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), the latest employment report paints a grim for job security in South […]
Provincial Food Price Monitoring Reports – January 2015 – September 2015
Eastern Cape Free State Gauteng KwaZulu-Natal Limpopo Mpumalanga Nothern Cape North West Western Cape
Basic Needs Basket Prices (National Average)
While national statistics are useful for providing data on general trends of poverty and inequality, SPII identified a gap in advancing the understanding of how real people live, their hopes and aspirations, their dreams and their frustrations, in having to cope with poverty and destitution on a daily basis. Download Report
October – December 2014 Quarterly Report
Against a background of high levels of existing poverty, the cost of living continues to increase as incomes, social services and opportunities have stagnated and even declined globally and in South Africa, creating a harsh situation where the majority of families cannot afford to lead decent lives, and food protests increase internationally. It is in […]
