by Admin | Sep 16, 2019 | Articles
By Dr Gemma Wright & Jabulani Jele We now have a socially derived definition of a decent standard of living in South Africa. Dignity is a vitally important value in South Africa, both culturally and in the jurisprudence literature. The constitution places...
by Isobel Frye | Sep 3, 2019 | Articles
Government has struggled for many years to develop the right policies to beat poverty. We explained what the decent standard of living (DSL) is – a measure of what ordinary South Africans think are important issues (the 21 “socially perceived necessities”, or SPNs) to...
by Trenton Elsely | Aug 20, 2019 | Articles
In among all the numbers, we have lost sight of dignity, and our value and worth as human beings. Poverty and inequality are the greatest obstacles to the full liberation of South Africans from an oppressive and divisive past. The National Development Plan 2030 is...
by Isobel Frye | Jul 10, 2019 | Articles
Poverty is political. It is about choices, values and self- interest. It is about power, about winners and losers. If you think it too dramatic to say that poverty is about life and death, it is certainly about how you live and how and when you die. Poverty is not a...
by Trenton Elsely | Jul 9, 2019 | Articles
Is this what a decent life looks like? It’s Sunday morning and your family is getting ready to go to church. Mother asks you to switch off all the lights before you leave. Electricity is expensive she says. You hear the toilet flush so you know that your sister is...
by Isobel Frye | Jul 8, 2019 | Articles
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 at the well-being of white South Africans in the context of virtual full employment for white men. They do not...
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