The 2021 ECD Census in South Africa highlights a severe cycle of poverty and bureaucratic red tape, with only 40% of Early ...

The African National Congress’s role is the culmination of the class function it performed during the transition from ...

African politics is not built on ideology alone but on survival. Where the state fails to deliver services as rights, poverty ...

Blackouts have cost the South African economy as much as the 2008 financial crisis did, according to some estimates.

Illegal trade has devastated populations, fuelled organised crime, and deepened poverty in coastal communities, while law ...

According to the report, the proportion of South Africans living below the Lower-Bound Poverty Line (LBPL), set at R1 300 per ...

Although the number of people living in extreme poverty decreased to 5.1 million between 2009 and 2023, 10.8 million, almost ...

According to the latest Income and Expenditure Survey in 2022/2023 about 23.2 million people were living below the ...

The Christmas story asserts that change comes from the margins, from the testimony of the poor and from within their ...

In addition, the International Monetary Fund lifted its growth forecast for the country to 1.3% in 2025 and 1.4% in 2026 from ...

As a result, the share of people in South Africa living below the lower-bound poverty line fell to 38% in 2023, or around 23 million people, from 58%, or 27 million people in 2006, Statistics South ...

Government has welcomed the latest Poverty Trends in South Africa report released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), which shows a significant decline in poverty levels over the past 17 years.