Social Inequality
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The KZN Art Fair wants your money. Just don't ask them for a seat at the table
The inaugural KZN Art Fair aimed to be a vehicle for exploring the South African art market, but its approach to student access and its choice of location raise questions about…
The NHI could provide a dose of social justice for South Africa
But to do so, it will have to provide genuine universal access to marginalised communities, including refugees and migrants
Why South Africa is the world’s most unequal society
The label is used so often it runs the risk of monotony. A new report sheds light on the full, multidimensional nightmare of South African inequality
The Gates effect: Social entrepreneurship reframes charity
The reality that we cannot continue to ignore is that our social development is imploding our economic growth.
Race reinvented for post-apartheid SA
Two decades since 1994, we’re still stuck in the racial categories of the old regime – a colour-coding of class from which only the rich benefit.
The rainbow is dead – beware the fire, SA
South Africa has been engulfed in a cacophony of contestation as anger bubbles to the surface of our unequal society.
Six things white people have that black people don’t
There’s a reason we can’t just “move on” and get over apartheid. Its effects are still very real for black South Africans, writes Verashni Pillay.
Race is dividing SA – Motlanthe, de Klerk, Rupert
Former presidents FW de Klerk and Kgalema Motlanthe, and business tycoon, Johann Rupert, spoke of race and social inequality at a conference.