by Nelly Nyagah | Jan 20, 2020 | Articles
Here’s the transcription of Dr Philip Alston’s video message to the Fourth Decent Standard of Living Colloquium in October 2019. __________ I am very grateful for the opportunity to say a few words at the beginning of the Fourth Annual Colloquium on a...
by David Francis | Dec 12, 2019 | Articles
South Africa is characterised by deep poverty and persistent inequality. While the country has made some progress in reducing poverty in the post-apartheid period, it has been much less successful in tackling resource inequalities. Goran Therborn ((Therborn, 2013;...
by Ncamile Moss | Nov 15, 2019 | Articles
In South Africa, each person has a constitutional right to live a life of dignity, a right to access to food and shelter, and basic services such as water, electricity and proper sanitation. An impartial research on poverty and inequality conducted by the Studies in...
by Precious Manyisa | Nov 8, 2019 | Articles
The 4th annual Decent Standard of Living (DSL) Colloquium was held in Pretoria on the 31st of October 2019. Addressing an attentive audience Dr Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, said that the adoption of the Decent Standard of Living (DSL)...
by Admin | Nov 5, 2019 | Articles
By Dr Gemma Wright and Jabulani Jele Policymakers are faced with many urgent and competing challenges with very limited resources. They also have to balance the priorities of the government, business, labour and communities which sometimes pull in different...
by Trenton Elsely | Oct 29, 2019 | Articles
This one goes out to the trade unionists and anyone else who understands that what few gains the working class have made, they have made through struggle and not through the kindness of the government, state or business. The expression, “the king is dead, long live...
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