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Market stall selling clothing and accessories in the town center of Darling in the Western Cape region of South Africa. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
AFFORDABILITY

SMMEs call for inclusion in reviving the post-Covid tourism sector

In 2019 SMMEs provided employment to about 47% of the workforce, with their total economic output accounting for about 20% of GDP

  • Anathi Madubela
4 min read
Activists from Fix The Patent Laws Campaign shout slogans while holding crosses and a ceremonial coffin during their march to urge the government to reform the intellectual property laws to enable improved access to many medicines for Covid-19 coronavirus, cancer, mental health, Tuberculosis (TB) and other illnesses in Pretoria. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP)
AFFORDABILITY

Campaign against patent laws ‘causing barriers’ to life saving Covid-19, TB, HIV and cancer drugs

The Fix The Patent Laws Campaign wants Trade Minister Ebrahim Patel to publish amendments to the Patent Act to make all medication affordable

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
2 min read
Zero emissions target: Illegal charcoal production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Emerging economies need to have a framework that will attract investment in clean energy. Photo: Alexis Huguet/AFP
ACCESS

Give Africa clean energy funds – IEA

Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, says wealthy countries have a ‘moral responsibility’ to enable a just transition

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
AFFORDABILITY

Long-term solutions needed for South Africa’s higher education

Government must lead, but organised labour and business must play their part in tackling youth unemployment and upskilling the youth, so that the coronavirus crisis can be turned…

  • Vusi Gumede
5 min read