This is the first edition of SPII Talk for 2021 and we have much to celebrate as an institute. We have been joined by...

Studies in poverty and Inequality Institute’s Nkuleleko Majozi speaks to Thami Ngubeni from Newzroom Afrika on the updated national poverty lines for 2021 which...

Isobel Frye, Director of the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, speaks on Chai FM on how unemployment directly impacts the poverty in our...

There has been a renewed call for the introduction of a basic income grant. The Universal Basic Income Grant (UBIG) has long been spoken...

This is the first edition of SPII Talk for 2021 and we have much to celebrate as an institute. We have been joined by...

To say that 2020 is a year unlike anything I have ever lived through is as trite as it is profound in my view....

What does the future of poverty look like? David Francis, Deputy Director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at Wits University, tackles that...

Poverty is political. It is about choices, values and self- interest. It is about power, about winners and losers. If you think it too...

South Africa’s sixth post-apartheid administration under President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to hit the ground running in relooking at how to address poverty and inequality....

As I write this, my neighbourhood has experienced four days of uninterrupted electricity supply, after weeks of frustrating load shedding. Stories of the impact...

It is remarkable that South Africa’s social security laws are still based on the pre-1994 Social Assistance Act, with tweaks. These laws were aimed...

The cost of the corruption has often been estimated in numerical terms. But surely there is another toll that the nefarious project has taken:...