Sunday Times: Op-ed by Isobel Frye on the Green paper

Sunday Times: Op-ed by Isobel Frye on the Green paper

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

Op-ed: Christina van Straten: Why the BIG is a solution for Gender-Based Violence

Op-ed: Christina van Straten: Why the BIG is a solution for Gender-Based Violence

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

Op-ed: A basic income grant is urgent if we are to avoid the next social explosion that destroys our common humanity

Op-ed: A basic income grant is urgent if we are to avoid the next social explosion that destroys our common humanity

The following is an Op-ed by Isobel Frye on how a basic income grant will be beneficial to the labour force as well as...

We must support SA women with a BIG, they uphold the rest of society

We must support SA women with a BIG, they uphold the rest of society

Our President strikingly referred to gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa the ‘second pandemic’ affecting our nation alongside the Covid-19 pandemic that disrupted the...

Op-ed: We need a real commitment to poverty relief’s Basic Income Grant idea, not more talk from the ANC

Op-ed: We need a real commitment to poverty relief’s Basic Income Grant idea, not more talk from the ANC

  In his January 8 speech, President Cyril Ramaphosa committed the ANC to “intensify other poverty alleviation measures alongside the economic recovery. This year, the ANC, government...

The Crucial Role of local CSOs in helping communities reduce poverty

The Crucial Role of local CSOs in helping communities reduce poverty

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...

Press Release: CIVIL SOCIETY HUMAN RIGHTS BUDGET

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

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...

Daily Maverick: Budget 2018: Higher education gets R57bn in Budget slated as anti-poor

Daily Maverick: Budget 2018: Higher education gets R57bn in Budget slated as anti-poor

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...

School funding: South Africa can learn from the world

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...

LETTER: Minimum wages did not destroy jobs in Germany

LETTER: Minimum wages did not destroy jobs in Germany

SIR — Jasson Urbach claims (Business Day, September 4) that the introduction of the national minimum wage in Germany had “adverse consequences” and cost...

Dispensing with Destitution

Implementing a meaningful  national minimum wage is the start of a national solution to poverty alleviation, Writes Isobel Frye; AMONG the fall-out of the...