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Cancelled pensions [2/3]: Tshidiso Matebese and Puleng Matebese

31st October 2019 Open Secrets 0

These are some of the testimonies from Look Beyond the Bottom Line, published
by Open Secrets. It profiles some of the informants of their research into the South African pension fund industry, unpaid benefits, and the unlawful cancellation of hundreds
of pension funds.

Cancelled pensions [1/3]: The case of Maria Mashiane

30th October 2019 Open Secrets 0

Meet some of the informants of a report by Open Secrets, The Bottom Line, that investigates the cancellation of pension and provident funds by fund administrators and the financial sector authority.

Too hungry to go to class: South Africa’s university students need better support

22nd October 2019 Stella Sabi 0

The South African university student population has changed over the past 20 years to reflect wider society more closely than before. It’s no surprise therefore […]

We did the sums on South Africa’s mental health spend. They’re not pretty

14th October 2019 Sumaiyah Docrat Crick Lund 0

South Africa has taken steps towards strengthening mental health care in the last 20 years. These include reforming the Mental Health Care Act 2002 and developing a National […]

South Africa must harness technology in a way that helps fix its problems

9th October 2019 Alison Gillwald 0

In the three short years that the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been punting the concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as the route to […]

Student hunger at South African universities needs more attention

7th October 2019 Marc Wegerif Oluwafunmiola Adeniyi 0

Food insecurity at tertiary institutions is aptly described as “the skeleton in universities’ cupboards” because it receives so little attention. Those in higher education are assumed […]

CWAO offices trashed and burned

3rd September 2019 Mzi Velapi 0

The offices of a labour support organisation, the Casual Workers Advice Office, were some of the buildings that were trashed and burned as a wave […]

How preschools can do more to support children living with HIV

14th August 2019 Linet Imbosa Muhati-Nyakudi 0

Thanks to antiretroviral therapy, children living with HIV are likely to live much longer than they would without treatment. They will go to school like […]

Cape Town’s bloody gang violence is inextricably bound up in its history

8th August 2019 Don Pinnock 0

When the apartheid government decided to evict people it called Coloured from Cape Town’s inner city, it set off a chain reaction that now requires military intervention. More than […]

South Africa’s healthcare system can’t afford to ignore migration

31st July 2019 Sasha Frade Jo Vearey Stephen Tollman 0

Reflecting global trends, most migration in South Africa is internal – people moving between the country’s different provinces. South Africa is also home to a […]

Housing organisations welcome Red Ants suspension

3rd July 2019 Mzi Velapi 0

Organisations representing poor and working class people who have borne the brunt of the marauding Red Ants in the past, are celebrating the suspension of the company. .

Data fails to capture complexity of South Africa’s unemployment crisis

27th June 2019 Daniel Mugge Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez 0

It’s been 25 years since democracy dawned in South Africa. But apartheid’s legacies still scar the country. Poverty remains high; inequality remains extreme – and […]

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