The South African financial sector can play a powerful role in driving economic inclusion
Africa’s inequality gap has stubbornly remained
Poor people living in the slums of Africa and Haiti have indeed a miserable life.
A Western Cape trucking outfit is allegedly rigging salaries against some race groups
We need a new programme that truly aims to bring about real economic transformation
South Africa’s recently announced economic recovery plan failed to break away from the cumbersome neo-liberal line.
"To make the country work we need to know what is changing, what works and what does not, so that we can learn from successes and failures"
It tells the UN that some rights have been realised but it will take political will to achieve them for all
The former finance minister said new forms of social safety nets are needed to reduce the socioeconomic divides in countries such as South Africa.
Report on the divide between rich and poor makes weak suggestions about how to fix it.
Reparation and redistribution to stop generational inequality underlies the protests.
Brazil demonstrated that the deliberate use of their NMW to break the poverty and inequality barriers led to a sustained reduction in those levels.
Germany’s competition regime is permeated by economic values of fair competition which ensure large companies have special obligations.
In contemporary SA, the gap between current wages and a living wage is vast and simply too large to be bridged in a short time, writes Imraan Valodia.
It shouldn’t surprise us that CEOs earn far more than workers, but what should is that CEOs have now become part of activism culture in South Africa.
A study conducted by the Pew Research Centre says two-thirds of South Africans agree that developing education should be a priority for the country.
On the surface Africa is democratic but underneath it is a ‘man-eat-man’ society, writes Jason Musyoka.
South Africa is trudging California’s ruined road of tertiary education to inequality and exclusion
A new report shows that almost two-thirds of South Africa’s preschoolers are not getting the health and nutrition they need.
With almost a quarter of Ugandan households spending over 10% of their income on medical treatment, the goal of universal healthcare seems far off.
The institution has tried to minimise income inequality in South Africa, with ludicrous results, writes Dick Forslund.
German filling and packaging company Krones has launched an investigation into accounts of racial discrimination at Krones SA.
Fifty years since the Selma march to demand voting rights for African-Americans in the South, new laws could disenfranchise poor black people anew.
Through something as simple as a list of requirements, media companies are safeguarding the status quo
Ruling elites that behave like private corporations don’t help the continent.
State spend and taxing the rich brings down inequality but it will take more and better jobs to reduce it further.
Reducing income inequality and giving everyone in South Africa a chance to succeed will entrench democracy.
Gauteng MEC of Economic Development Lebogang Maile says the country’s large inequality gap is what contributes to criminality in townships.
If we are all Charlie Hebdo because we do not stand for media that is oppressed, then we must all be oppressed as a result, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee
The institution has failed to retract a document that neoliberal politicians and commentators are using to advocate state spending cuts.
The World Bank has praised South Africa’s fiscal system, but with a number of reservations.
Oxfam’s latest report highlights the travesty of inequality and warns of dire and corrosive consequences to society.