New GLC Article: Street Vendors in India get Legal Protection

By Sharit Bhowmik –  On the 5th of March 2014, the President of India approved a law passed by both houses of Parliament, titled...

Households in informal dwellings remain at 14%

BY: NATASHA ODENDAAL – he number of households living in informal dwellings remained stubbornly high with nearly 14% of South Africa’s 15-million households living in such...

South Africa: Shale Gas Fracking in South Africa – Will the Costs Be Socialised and the Benefits Privatised?

By Saliem Fakir –  ANALYSIS – The local hype over shale-gas continues as the ANC’s National Executive Committee recently announced that shale-gas is a...

Ethiopian Advocates for Inclusion for People With Disabilities

By Kim Lewis –  The Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which held its seventh annual session in New York from June...

Kenya: Child Labour, Marriage and Trafficking Keep Millions of Kenyans Out of School

By Katy Migiro –  Millions of Kenyan children miss out on school because they are forced to work, are married or trafficked, the child...

Lonmin miners: We still have unresolved issues

  KWANELE SOSIBO –  Last week it was reported that workers asked AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa to sign on the latest offer from the three mining...

All eyes on Zuma

By SAPA –   Tonight President Jacob Zuma will deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA). Opposition parties want Zuma to focus on...

SA youth: Equal opportunity remains a dream

By HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE – Statistics South Africa recently announced that youth unemployment in South Africa had fallen to 36.1% – that’s a 3.4%...

City of Jo’burg blamed for not providing homes for evictees

By KWANELE SOSIBO –  The Socioeconomic Rights Institute of South Africa (Seri-SA) has accused the City of Johannesburg of doing nothing to provide alternative accommodation for evictees since...

SADC handbook must reintroduce ‘free and fair’ to elections

By WEBSTER ZAMBARA –  This year, the Southern African Development Community celebrates 10 years since the creation and adoption of 15 guidelines and principles...

SA youth would rather work for govt 

Fin24 Cape Town – Two thirds (67%) of SA’s youth surveyed think the government is the best way to earn a good living, according...

Experts: Govt faces terrible mining quandary

By Terry Bell – Cape Town – To salvage jobs and a future for the platinum mining industry in South Africa, the government should...