This is the first edition of SPII Talk for 2021 and we have much to celebrate as an institute. We have been joined by...

While the country gears up for local government elections, questions are also being asked about School Governing Body (SGB) under Covid-19 conditions In light...

A magazine show covering African development issues hosted by Sonny Decker. This week: More women, especially African women, in South Africa are disadvantaged and...

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY 09 SEPTEMBER 2021 A CALL FOR A BETTER POVERTY MEASURE   Johannesburg: According to data released by Statistics...

Civil Society Organisations (“CSOs”) often work closely with members of communities that often fall through the cracks of Government’s socio-economic development plans. Such organisations...

Introduction The South African Schools Act 1996 (Act 84 of 1996) (SASA) stipulates that a School Governing Board (SGB) must be elected every three...

In a democratic society that encourages a citizen-state relationship premised on public participation in the constitution, and as a way of enabling the division...

Looking back Covid related lockdowns, social distancing requirements and limits on venue capacity restricted the ways people traditionally gathered to discuss issues, and forced...

  It seems ironic that the global status of isolating and social and economic lockdowns caused by the Coronavirus Covid-19 has led to a...

‘The controversy is inevitable; ‘vested interests’, private and bureaucratic, are challenged in a hundred ways. Writes Isobel Frye for the Sunday Times on the...

Following the withdrawal of the Green Paper, the director of the Studies of Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) Isobel Frye, is joined by the...

"The fact that dignified people are more productive is at the epicentre of this issue, yet it is tough to be dignified when you...