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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 […]

Education in South Africa: hits and misses over the past 25 years

26th June 2019 Vijay Reddy Ncamisile Zulu 0

State of the Nation addresses are delivered at the start of South Africa’s parliamentary year. They focus on the current political and socio-economic state, highlight […]

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