Africa: Inclusive Job-Creating Growth Strategies Should Drive Africa’s Prosperity – WEF
BY OMOH GABRIEL – The just-concluded World Economic Forum on Africa held in Abuja has identified key drivers that will usher in prosperity in Africa. Participants at the three-day event which practically shut down Abuja said that Africa’s prosperity can only be driven by inclusive growth strategies that create jobs and include all Africans. This […]
Can Zuma’s ANC risk implementing development plan?
The Times Editorial – The Jacob Zuma led African National Congress (ANC) has campaigned behind the implementation of the much talked about the National Development Plan (NDP), which is meant to drive economic growth, employment and poverty reduction. Although it’s being lauded as being business friendly, the NDP has come under scrutiny from labour and […]
Strength in unity, and vice versa: Central Africa’s integration problem
By Simon Allison Is it a coincidence that Africa’s most troubled region is also its least integrated? SIMON ALLISON explores why central Africa has failed to make any progress on regional unity, and what this means for its future (no, it’s not good news). After all, a region is only as effective as the sum […]
HANNIBAL ELECTOR: From Alexandra to Zuma, via Malema – violence, silence & nothing wrong with Nkandla
By Richard Poplak It all came to an official close this weekend. But as new realities sink in, old ones start bubbling up. Is this a country terminally at war with itself? I roll into Alexandra with the army. In the gritted-teeth grimness that follows the South African election, and as the results roll out […]
EDITORIAL: The danger of policy paralysis
THE consensus among political analysts before Wednesday’s election was that a mandate of less than 60% for the African National Congress (ANC), from just shy of two-thirds of the vote in 2011, would send a clear message that South Africans are not happy and demand change. Similarly, another two-thirds landslide could justifiably be interpreted as […]
Diepsloot and Dainfern: world’s apart
By Franz Wild – SA’s wealth gap on show, 20 years later. Mpho Mpshane can’t wait to escape the whiff of kerosene and the tupperware-munching rats in her car-sized shack in South Africa’s Diepsloot shantytown. Every Monday, Mpshane, 56, makes the trip in a crowded minibus to the mansion she cleans in nearby Dainfern, a […]
Sanral raises national toll tariffs
Gauteng’s etolls not affected. Toll tariffs will increase in line with the consumer price index (CPI) on May 24, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) said on Friday. “Any adjustments to the tariffs are based on the preceding twelve months’ CPI. The average CPI adjustment for Sanral toll tariffs is 5.8 percent,” it said […]
Lack of Social Protection for Women in Informal Employment: Would the Universal Big Income Grant be the Answer?
Substantial allocations of the national budgets are being invested annually in social protection policies and programme to address high levels of poverty and vulnerability world over. Poverty is perpetuated by risks and vulnerabilities, many of which are gendered. Time poverty, gender-based violence, discriminatory labour markets and unequal intra-household decision-making power all serve to exacerbate gender inequalities and vulnerability.
SADC BIG e-Newsletter Issue 2
Social Protection has never been as important as it is now in Southern Africa. We at the Secretariat are excited about the call for a basic income grant in SADC.This Newsletter serves as a platform to share information, news, updates and analysis on the basic income grant/ cash transfers as well as providing space for broader […]
Stockvels: The New Word in Money-Ville
With the recent weekly household visits to project participants, fieldworkers (enterprise coaches) were more than delighted to discover that the recent Financial Literacy Training had served as an energizer and reminder on the importance of savings. A project participant, a lady in her 40’s, who operates a fast food shop in her parent’s backyard, tells […]
