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/ 17 December 2008
Nearly half the population in the DRC may not live to 40 years of age, the United Nations Development Programme said on Wednesday.
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/ 9 December 2008
Zimbabwe has fallen into chaos — and there seems no chance of salvation.
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/ 21 November 2008
HIV is thought to have a kill rate of close to 100%, higher than even the notorious haemorrhagic diseases such as Ebola.
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/ 15 November 2008
SA must use this weekend’s G20 meeting to protect increases in social spending.
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/ 12 November 2008
Cosatu has launched a new project that will focus on making sure the lives of the poor and workers are improved, it announced on Wednesday.
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/ 30 October 2008
The Sonke PhotoVoice Project allows children to talk about their wants and needs. Kristin Palitza reports.
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/ 28 October 2008
Dizzying construction boom relies on migrant labourers who are lured into a life of squalor and exploitation, writes Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
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/ 22 October 2008
Panicked emails bounced from Blackberry to Blackberry in the world’s wealthiest countries this week.
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/ 10 October 2008
Within the context of human security, there is a case to be made for the centrality of housing, writes Clarence Tshitereke.
Not enough has been done to address trends in poverty, inequality and state legitimacy in South Africa, the Presidency said on Wednesday.
The time has come for people to stop buying monthly bus and train tickets and rather put their money in gold.
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/ 26 September 2008
The Congress of South African Trade Unions called on new President Kgalema Motlanthe on Friday to eradicate poverty and create jobs.
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/ 24 September 2008
Michael Keating reports on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals at the midpoint.
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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.