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Poverty to blame for 500,000 SA school dropouts during the pandemic

Poverty is directly to blame for the skyrocketing school dropout rate in the county. The latest National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey...

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 Release: State Progress Report To CESCR Committee Not Real Progress

1 July 2021 South Africa’s government has yet to get a handle on the increasing socioeconomic disparity, as the latest reports indicate that the...

Concerns Over the Funding of the Covid-19 Vaccine

SPII's director, Isobel Frye and economist, Duma Gqubule, discuss how the government will fund the COVID-19 vaccine while South Africa's economy is still in...

2020 Annual Report: Decent Standard of Living Colloquium

For SPII as a collection of people it was a difficult year. We anticipated the hard lockdown by working from home in early March...

Poor Financial Position of Government Likely to Be at the Centre of Budget

“If we want the economy to grow we need to Increase the demand in the market.” With only a few days to go before...

Impact of COVID-19 on Poverty

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to have long-lasting effects on people’s livelihoods which stretch far beyond the spread of the disease....

Youth Unemployment: How Do We Diffuse a Ticking Time Bomb?

Young people in South Africa continue to face unemployment and Poverty. Danita Hingston from Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute joins EWN senior reporter...

Universal Basic Income in South Africa: Perspectives from Private Sector and Civil Society

The global pandemic has exposed an underlying gap which exists in South Africa and has stressed the need for a basic income grant due...

Leaving No One Behind While Building Back Better

As part of the famous annual Gothenburg Book Fair Global Square listen to conversations on 24 September between Ugo Gentilini of the World Bank...

ACT Ubumbano Learning Hub #5

Community voice, human dignity, and the demand for a Basic Income Grant. Monday, 14 September 2020, ACT Ubumbano hosted a webinar to reflect on...

Social Protection in South Africa: Building back better post-COVID-19 – Webinar

Isobel Frye, Director of SPII, in a panel discussion about how South Africa’s social protection system can “build back better” after COVID-19 lockdown restrictions...