Mugabe snipes at Zuma over SADC trade protocol
By Owen Gagare, Everson Mushava – South African President Jacob Zuma and Namibian President Hifikepuye Pohamba declined to sign the Protocol on Trade in Services at the close of the SADC summit in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, on Sunday despite regional heads putting pressure on them during deliberations. Zuma, elected chairperson of the SADC troika on politics, […]
ANC accepts Tlakula court ruling
By SAPA – Johannesburg – The ANC said on Tuesday it accepted the Constitutional Court’s dismissal of IEC chair Pansy Tlakula‘s bid to appeal a ruling that her misconduct in 2009 warranted her removal from office. “We hold the view that our freedom and democracy has accorded every South African a chance to tell his […]
Towards A Decent Living Level Seminar Report
The third Decent Living Level Seminar, held on the 30th of July 2014, further explored modalities for promoting dialogue towards reaching consensus on a decent living level in South Africa, amidst rising unemployment rates and a huge surplus of unskilled labour high levels of inequalities and poverty. Download full Pdf Document Seminar Report Towards a […]
Broadening Mozambique’s Governance Horizons
By Armando Emílio Guebuza – Good governance, accountability and inclusive development have been recurrent themes in contemporary international relations and development discourse. Nevertheless, scant attention has been devoted to how – in practice – good governance can be deployed at the national and local level, beyond the confines of representative organs and other conventional accountability […]
Why Are We So Poor? Yet We Are So Rich?
By Briggs Bomba – As leaders gather for the annual Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in the resort town of Victoria Falls this weekend, a distinctive new prominence and sense of urgency has emerged around the key issue facing the region – and the continent as a whole: the question of inclusive development […]
SADC People’s Summit: ‘Reclaiming SADC for People’s Development-SADC Resources for SADC People’ -, Bulawayo Communique
By Southern African People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN) We the representatives of more than 2500 delegates drawn from grassroots movements, community-based organizations, faith based organizations, women’s organizations, labour, student, youth, economic justice and human rights networks and other social movements gathered at the Peoples Summit convened by the Southern Africa People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN) and Peoples […]
EFF will teach ANC how to take care of poor – Malema
SAPA – Rustenburg – The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will build houses for the widows of the slain Marikana miners, party leader Julius Malema said on Saturday. “We are going to deliver. We want to teach the ANC government how to take care of poor of the poorer,” he said to the applause of the […]
Horrific scale of hunger cries out for action
BySASHA STEVENSON, HANNAH DAWSON – Poor nutrition not only costs individuals dearly by stunting their potential, but the country too. More than half of our population is hungry or at risk of hunger. That’s more than 20-million people facing the daily terror of a clawing stomach with little hope of filling it. In the face of […]
Housing subsidy too high – Sisulu
By Roy Cokayne – The government subsidy for the top structure for a basic 40m2 social housing unit has rocketed to R154 000 from only R58 000 in 2008/09, prompting a Human Settlements departmental review. Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said the current R154 000 subsidy amount was “unacceptably high”. The minister, in an exclusive […]
No plans to nationalise pension funds
By SANews, SA government news service – Government has no intention to nationalise people’s pension (or provident) funds, or prevent them from accessing their money, says the Department of Basic Education. This comes after rumours alleged that government would take away people’s hard-earned pensions, and prevent them from accessing their funds. The department says the […]
