The unemployment in South Africa went up to 27.1 % in the third quarter of 2016 from 26.6 in the previous period. The number...

PEOPLE SHOULD BE AT THE HEART OF MINISTER’S BUDGET, NOT COST CUTTING Minister Malusi Gigaba delivered the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) at...

SPII supports the peaceful protestors who are demonstrating their anger and frustration at the state of our economy and the crisis of governance that...

PRESS RELEASECIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE, PEOPLE-CENTERED BUDGETBroad collective of socio-economic rights organisations offer example of a budget which takes ordinary South Africans seriously.Minister Gigaba...

Beginning his speech, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba said the Budget had prioritised the country’s most pressing issues: “educating our youth, protecting the vulnerable and...

By Birgit Weyss, Nurina Allly and Daniel McLaren Some countries have managed to improve outcomes for their most disadvantaged learners In previous articles we have...

SPII has always protested against the level of the three poverty lines since adoption in 2012, compared to other studies that consider the cost...

In an organizational context, a process of profound and radical change that orients an organization in a new direction and takes it to an...

2016 has been a momentous year in relation to wage policy in South Africa,specifically as we see the progress reached on the negotiations on...

In this edition of SPII talk, in the context of the Reports launched by SPII concerning Water and Sanitation and a Healthy Environment in...

As the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) marks the first ten years of its existence, we celebrate a decade of research, advocacy,...

The first quarter of this year has been quite eventful mounting scrutiny of the executive in the Constitutional Court, as well as increasing concerns...