The renowned French economist noted that the country has made little progress towards closing the inequality gap, despite efforts to redistribute income
We cannot return to the pre-coronavirus crisis of unemployment, inequality and poverty. There is a moral incentive for the rich to give up some of their wealth and for the salaries of top earning civil servants, employees at state-owned entities and in the private sector to be cut
The annual lecture will this year be held on July 17, the day before what would have been Mandela’s 100th birthday
A better future is possible – but only if the scourge of inequality is banished
Readers write in about farm workers, and poverty in Brics.
French economist Thomas Piketty says we should follow the country’s lead on a minimum wage, but we may have already done so.
Thomas Piketty’s message about a global wealth tax found fertile ground in South Africa.
Thomas Piketty will deliver the Nelson Mandela annual lecture on Thursday October 3, which will serve to highlight the issue of inequality in SA.