Press Statements Archive Archives

Press Release: A Call For A Better Poverty Measure

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

Press Release: No Cause For Celebration this Women’s Month – Advocacy Groups Outraged

Press Release For Immediate Release 06 August 2021 No Cause For Celebration this Women’s Month - Advocacy Groups Outraged South Africa...

Statement of the NEDLAC Community Constituency on the reintroduction of the R350 SRoD Grant

The Community Constituency welcomes the contents of the media briefing of the Minister of Social Development today, 4 August 2021. In the briefing, the...

Media Advisory: Mandela Day Lecture: SPII Proposes BIG Solutions to Growing Poverty and Unrest is SA

Media Advisory For Immediate Release 19 July 2021 SOUTH AFRICA - During a panel discussion reflecting on former president Nelson Mandela’s legacy in...

Press Release: 40 Civil Society Organisations: ‘We Want R1,268 For All Now’

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY 16 JULY 2021 40 CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS: ‘WE WANT R1,268 FOR ALL NOW’ SOUTH AFRICA:...

Press Release: Civil Society Forges Plan Toward A Basic Income Grant of R1,268 For All

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY 15 JULY 2021 We demand that the state provides a universal basic income grant of R1 268 to...

Press Release: SA Must Not Let Its Women Starve During Covid Pandemic

Press Release Johannesburg, July 8, 2021 - South Africa is spiralling into an unbearable rate of poverty which our leadership can no longer...

Press Statement: CIVIL SOCIETY PROPOSES ALTERNATIVE, PEOPLE-CENTERED BUDGET

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...

SPII STATEMENT ON THE MASS PROTEST ACTION TAKING PLACE ON FRIDAY 07 APRIL 2017

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 Release: SPII Condemns insightment of Violence against foreign nationals

The Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute strongly condemns the xenophobic attacks and incitement of violence against immigrants and foreign nationals in South Africa,...

Release of the 2017 Human Rights Budget Speech

Debate about the budget should be based on the real human rights issues that people across the country are facing. The Constitution requires that...