The festival is aimed at addressing social ills Sunday’s concert had the makings of a charismatic church crusade
Although the problems are enormous, cities can also offer unique opportunities to reduce poverty, deliver prosperity and economic development
The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe
Cost pressures, stagnant wages and a bleeding economy are pushing many people into poverty
That’s good news, but read on — and don’t be tempted to race on to the next bad news story
Co-founder of Global Citizen, Hugh Evans says he believes that if people get into the spirit of altruism it eventually becomes habit-forming.
The current ethnic, racial discourse is dangerous and simply avoids having to address the difficult issues confronting South Africa
Impoverished families will have some relief after a class action against 29 mining firms succeeds
Dlamini-Zuma says it is important to ensure the work of StatsSA remains relevant, and that policymakers and implementers use the data
Schools on farm and communal land are multigrade, resources are minimal and the lifestyle change is a shock
Poor people living in the slums of Africa and Haiti have indeed a miserable life.
Civil society organisations have declared that the allocation of police resources in the Western Cape discriminates against black women in particular
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says that there must be an uncompromising rejection of corruption, patronage, cronyism and wastage
Money and better schooling are unlikely to effect substantial change in near future
Readers write in about the effect of climate change on the poor, faith, and racial stereotypes.
We need a new programme that truly aims to bring about real economic transformation
Readers write in about black poverty
"An assessment of middle classes should consider their vulnerability rather than hold a romanticised view"
Success is a function of genetic luck, situational luck and hard work.
War-torn Somalia spent more than two decades without a working Parliament, so why are Somalis happier than South Africans?
Brazil demonstrated that the deliberate use of their NMW to break the poverty and inequality barriers led to a sustained reduction in those levels.
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.
Readers write in about ending poverty, Halliburton and the Guptas, and post-truthisms.
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.
On the surface Africa is democratic but underneath it is a ‘man-eat-man’ society, writes Jason Musyoka.
Once put-upon, the Afrikaners engineered their own economic turnaround. Similarly, black people should be creating jobs, not seeking them.
Residents from the favelas of the Brazilian capital say the global showpiece and its legacy project have done nothing but compound their misery.
Rwanda has shown that improved nutrition lifts individuals, families, communities and economies.
The country plans to move two million poor citizens living in remote areas as an extreme measure to lift 10-million citizens out of poverty by 2020.
A new report shows that almost two-thirds of South Africa’s preschoolers are not getting the health and nutrition they need.
A $4-billion fund to create 25-million jobs is one initiative to uplift Africa’s people, the young in particular.
Pastors and politicians will continue to feed off the desperation of the poor, until their material and spiritual needs are met, and oppression ends.