South Africa's primary focus in the discussions is on the role of parliaments in addressing hunger, poverty and inequality; promoting socio-environmental development and a just and inclusive ...

Experts say South Africa’s unemployed population struggles to find work not due to a lack of jobs but a lack of support ...

The South African government, collectively with non-government organisations (NGOs) and the private sector spend almost R700 billion per year tackling child poverty.

About 13 million children in South Africa live in poverty, despite the estimated R700 billion a year investment made by the government, private sector and NGOs to tackle this. Government spending on ...

South Africa has been struggling for decades to reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment and raise the rate of economic ...

Growth in agriculture is in general two to three times more effective at reducing poverty than an equivalent amount of growth ...

In the years ahead, the CPC and ANC’s collaboration could help pave the way for a more equitable, sustainable future for South Africa and, indeed, for other African nations looking to benefit from ...

Child poverty is not just a moral issue; it bears a steep economic cost for South Africa, amounting to nearly R700 billion each year. This staggering figure emerges from the latest findings of the ...

The high rate of unemployment remains the Achilles’ heel of the economy – an economy that cannot ease the plight of the ...

Inadequate access to reliable energy reduces the annual GDP growth in Africa by 2% to 4%, the World Bank estimates ...

The Institute of Economic Justice (IEJ) has argued that increasing South Africa’s Social Relief of Distress (SRD) to R700 per ...