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South Africa has a structural unemployment problem that is not primarily caused by increased labour migration. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
2026 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

ActionSA pushes for constitutional change as Operation Dudula  targets migrants at clinics

The Human Rights Commission and legal experts say the Constitution, the National Health Act, the UN Refugee Convention and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights…

  • Mandisa Makgakga
4 min read
South Africa may have attained political emancipation but economically the chains largely remain. (File photo)
APARTHEID

Economic apartheid: South Africa’s transition a warning for a two-state agreement for Palestine

South Africa may have attained political emancipation but economically the chains largely remain

  • Sõzarn Barday
6 min read
House of cards: Despite constitutional assurances of gender equality and the right to housing, women find themselves up against patriarchal norms, unequal treatment under customary practices and little protection from the law. Photos: Seri
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

Female & Guardian | ‘Policies skewed against women’

UN report finds discrimination against women in land and housing programmes

  • Umamah Bakharia
5 min read
The Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act requires only that evictees be provided with alternative accommodation. (Flickr)
CONSTITUTION

Evictions: Law doesn’t protect unlawful occupiers’ economic interests

The Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act requires only that evictees be provided with alternative accommodation

  • Sithelo Magagula
9 min read
South Africa is widely recognised as the most unequal society in the world, with a startling 71% of the country’s wealth concentrated in the hands of a mere 10% elite
AUSTERITY

Civil society coalition condemns South Africa’s report to the UN on inequality

Critics argue that South Africa’s latest submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a unilateral and fraught exercise

  • Luke Feltham
3 min read