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.
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.