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Poverty and inequalities in South Africa

No water for rural poor in a time of pandemic

11th Dec 2020 Lilita Gcwabe 0

Covid-19 and the lockdown has exacerbated poverty and inequalities in the rural areas of South Africa.

Over 130 villages are without water in Ngqushwa

20th Oct 2020 Nombulelo Damba 0

Villagers in Ngqushwa in the Eastern Cape say they have marched and sent petitions to authorities but little relief has been provided to their shortage of water.

Pandemics don’t heal divisions – they reveal them. South Africa is a case in point

20th Mar 2020 Steven Friedman 0

Some around the world predict that the COVID-19 will heal divisions and narrow inequalities . A pandemic, they claim, can remind us of our common […]

Digital equality: South Africa still has a long way to go

5th Mar 2020 Allison Gillwald 0

In the South African President’s state of the the Nation Address earlier this month Cyril Ramaphosa highlighted the fact that the country’s Competition Commission had […]

Xenophobia: time for cool heads to prevail in Nigeria and South Africa

10th Sep 2019 Gilbert Khadiagala 0

The latest xenophobic attacks in South Africa have ignited the long-standing tensions between the country and Nigeria. These are captured in the retaliatory attacks on South African businesses […]

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

27th Jun 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 Jun 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 […]

Why ‘pro-poor’ policies on their own won’t shift inequality in South Africa

18th Jun 2019 Colin Bundy 0

Sociologist Goran Therborn has probably influenced the study of inequality more than any other scholar in recent years. Invited to locate inequality in South Africa in a […]

Why South Africa should seriously consider taxing its wealthy citizens

23rd May 2019 Ingrid Woolard 0

This is an edited extract from a chapter in the recently published The state of the nation: poverty & inequality: diagnosis, prognosis and responses. It’s well-established […]

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