Embracing Decency and Dignity
Across the globe, including in South Africa and her neighbours, the cost of meeting basic needs is rising exponentially. In South Africa, income sources are dwindling.
Where does the power lie? – OPINION
As the costs mount, it is concerning that no one who is formally in power seems to have any control. And amid all the chaos, the inequalities between the rich and the rest are growing.
Township Economic Think Tank calls for ANC’s intervention
A township Economic Think Tank has called for practical economic interventions by the ANC to revive the country’s township economy, Executive Director, Isobel Frye comments on this.
Social employment: Pleasing programmes, but the Macro must change
A forthcoming publication on unemployment sets out with sickening detail the extent of the unemployment crisis that will sink South Africa.
How do political battles affect the poor?
The public at large will get to have their say when it comes to electing the ruling party, and national and provincial elections are due to be held only in 2024.
Survey: SA economy absorbed extra 240 000 jobs
SA’s economy absorbed an additional 240 000 jobs between 1 July and 30 September 2022. Executive Director, Isobel Frye, weighs in on whether these numbers can be sustained.
Filicide: A story of poverty, hardship and depression
On the evening of November 8, Nomboleko Simayile, a 32-year-old mother of four children ranging in age from 2 to 11 years, allegedly bludgeoned her children to death in the rondavel where they were staying with her parents in Tsalaba village in Engcobo in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
WORKING PAPER: An Analysis of Just Energy Transitions & Social Security in South Africa
This paper assesses the linkages between
social security and climate adaptation strategies
in South Africa.
The unequal face of death in South Africa
There is a tragedy inherent in the fact that despite the guaranteed rights to life and equality in the Constitution, the realm in which inequality ultimately determines life, is in death. The ways of dying in South Africa reflect such difference it is as if South Africa is one state made up of varied parts.
Green light for equitable development
South Africa’s Just Transition agenda earned global approval at COP27 for being on deadline, but also for its depth and detail. Now the money deals have to be closed for the R1.5 trillion five year Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET IP), a plan that was released with hours to spare before the opening of COP27.
