The debate on national minimum wages in South Africa

Last week in a twitter debate, former Reserve Bank governor, Tito Mboweni, said that no worker in South Africa should earn less than R3,000...

Welfare Kids’ Funeral Cover Pits Insurers Against S. Africa

By Franz Wild andThembisile Augustine Dzonzi Sanlam Ltd. and Lion of Africa Assurance Co. are among insurers whose sale of funeral policies for children on...

Zero minimum wage equals maximum shame

By Angelo BUsiness is serving its own interests at the expense of the country by stalling on fair pay, writes Angelo Louw The introduction...

Department blindsides miners with new charter –

The newly revised mining charter calls for a perpetual minimum of 26% black ownership per mining right. The revision of the charter was made...

SPII Talk Newsletter, 1st Quarter, April 2016

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

SPII TALK NEWSLETTER – 4th Quarter December 2015

In the mid – 2000s, former President Thabo Mbeki launched some very public and critical attacks against civil society and the trade union federation,...

SPII Talk Volume 21- 3rd Quarter August 2015

Following from SPII's policy review, budget analysis and development of indicators for the rights to health care, social security, housing and food, SPII is...

Minimum Wage Debate

“The National Minimum Wage clearly has advocates and nay-sayers.  What is interesting about the following article is that despite the positive content in the...

SPII TALK Newsletter, 1st Quarter, April 2015

Despite riches among southern African countries, there are growing social and economic inequalities between rich and poor.These growing inequalities, including income inequality,have made it...

SPII TALK NEWSLETTER November 2014

On 16 OctoberSPII Talk November front cover 2014 the world celebrated World Food Day, which has become a global campaign to raise awareness around...

Will minimum wage reduce inequality in south Africa

SPII participated at the recently held debate hosted by Rethink Africa on the Minimum wage date in South Africa. Other stakeholders on the panel...

SPII Talk Newsletter, July 2014

Poverty, unemployment and growing inequality remain South Africa’s greatest challenges in undoing the legacy of Apartheid. The “triple challenge” has revealed itself increasingly in...