This system of learning has seemed complicit in the widening gap between rich and poor.
Dealing with a 350-year-old problem might entail employers recognising that certain chores domestic workers are expected to do are degrading.
We can overcome education models that still entrench social divisions.
Inequality on the continent has grown in the past decade as tax systems have failed to redistribute wealth, says Christian Aid.
Technology has exacerbated inequality. But we should prepare ourselves for an increasingly tech-driven world, an act that could eradicate the problem.
Women need only seven seats, mostly on the bottom deck, on the £1-trillion double-decker bus revealed by Oxfam this week.
Leaders may talk about inequality, but boosting infrastructure is a concrete way to change things, says Nikiwe Bikitsha.
As the World Economic Forum starts in Davos, a development charity claims that growing inequality has been driven by a "power grab" by wealthy elites.
Professor Adam Habib’s new book addresses inequality in South Africa and warns our economic elites to ‘compromise now or risk losing everything’.
Inequality can be eradicated but the policymakers need to get on board, writes Hlumelo Biko.
Opinion: Khaya Dlanga says more South Africans can be made to feel included in the running of the country if inequality was addressed.
It is unusual to be given three opportunities to address one of the most crucial issues facing humanity – the uprooting of poverty and inequality.
South Africa has largely failed to provide equal opportunities to all citizens since the advent of democracy in 1994.
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/ 25 November 2011
Recent social unrest in places like Tunisia highlights why countries should not disregard people’s desire to share in the benefits of economic growth.
It’s usual practice when someone is killed that their personal details are not made public until the next of kin have been informed.
Either this Michigan city is a harbinger of battles to come over budget cuts across America, or a new chapter in the struggle for civil rights.
The poor are suffering the consequences of the costly land policy that the ANC government opted for.
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/ 2 February 2010
A government report on inequality within SA’s black population is at odds with an international finding that it is increasing, says the DA.
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/ 23 October 2008
Growing inequality in US cities could lead to widespread social unrest and increased mortality, says a new UN report on the urban environment.
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/ 22 November 2007
As Piet Koornhof quietly shuffled of this mortal coil last week, an Eastern Cape man said he still had a question for the apartheid-era Cabinet minister.