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/ 17 September 2008
The communities of the Wild Coast drink from polluted waterholes shared with dogs and livestock. There are no toilets. Medical facilities are rare.
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/ 11 September 2008
In the first of a two-part series, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, argues that capital must be disciplined.
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/ 10 September 2008
Ministers from rich and poor countries met in Accra last week to discuss ways to make the system of aid more effective.
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/ 7 September 2008
South Africa’s slow-moving land-reform programme has so far failed to eradicate poverty, ANC leader Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.
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/ 4 September 2008
Researchers find that ‘acquaintance murder’ tops the list of forms of killing in the country and should be prioritised, writes Sello S Alcock.
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/ 3 September 2008
A new European treaty will snatch food from the mouths of the world’s poorest.
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/ 2 September 2008
Azad Essa, the IOLS-Research and the M&G compiled a series of stories about how people are being affected by the economic crunch.
Nelson Mandela said that as long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
A desolate Free State town is undergoing a total overhaul as the first to benefit from the government’s new anti-poverty programme.
Poverty is colour blind, and black and white people need to work together to eradicate it, ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa said on Friday.
Scores of Swazis took to the streets to demonstrate against the king’s wives’ trip abroad while people go hungry.
Nosimilo Ndlovu reports on community efforts to deal with the food crisis from both a South African and Malawian point of view.
Ruth First Fellowship winner and photographer Alon Skuy explains how he interpreted the theme of this year’s Ruth First lecture.
Both Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma profess themselves to be ”pro-poor”, and usually these presentations escape scrutiny in the media.
The end is in sight for negotiations between Zimbabwe’s rival leaders, President Thabo Mbeki told the SADC summit in Johannesburg on Saturday.
As a young learner growing up in Zimbabwe, Dionne Shepherd was fascinated by molecular/physical science and astronomy.
Irene Grootboom was the woman whose name became known around the world for enforcing the state’s obligation to respect socio-economic rights.
Grandmothers are often left to raise unwanted kids. Surika van Schalkwyk looks at the struggles they face.
The distribution of wealth in post-apartheid South Africa has become more unequal, writes Réjane Woodroffe.
Hearings on poverty will take the people’s grievances to the corridors of power, writes Patrick Burnett.
The SACP has poured cold water on the government’s plans to embark on a national campaign against poverty, saying the move won’t benefit the poor.
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma on Thursday addressed a gathering of more than 1 000 poor white Pretoria residents.
A single mother — desperate to get her only child some more food –offers to give him away to an aid worker. That is how bad the situation is.
The income of the poorest South Africans has improved in real terms over the past 14 years, according to government data released on Thursday.
The ANC’s Polokwane conference resolved that the government should progressively introduce free education for the poor up to undergraduate level.
A world-renowned scholar of public policy, Yehezkel Dror, recently emphasised that policy and politics ”closely interact and cannot be separated”.
National budget becomes a political football in party squabble, putting vital foreign aid payments at risk.
The media have no space for the poor to raise their views, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.
Rising oil prices, global food shortages and the economic crisis are proof for many survivalists that society is on the brink of meltdown.
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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.