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...
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...
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