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

The latest Quality of Life survey in Gauteng finds people hungrier, feeling more precarious and less happy than they have ...

“It’s the only city in the country that you’ve seen economic mobility for poor black people, you see people who were ...

"The results reflect the will of the people," says President Ramaphosa South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted his African National Congress (ANC) party has suffered a challenging ...

During colonialism and apartheid, Black South Africans were largely not supplied with clean, running water. New water laws must overturn this water inequality.

On Tuesday, Ikamva Labantu released the results of research into the abuse of older people mostly living in Cape Town's poor communities. They found elder abuse was often overlooked in many ...

In it, he advocates the distribution of chickens in sub-Saharan Africa as a means of alleviating extreme poverty – improving the lot of people making ... The income gains to poor women are ...

In 2010, Greg Mills of South Africa published a powerful book titled Why Africa is Poor and What Africans Can ... the hired business jet that took our people to the States. And clearly there ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

The roots of the problem lie in poor management ... contradictions of South Africa's governing ANC - the former liberation movement once led by Nelson Mandela - many people will point you towards ...

The report, Meeting Africa’s Energy Needs – the Costs and Benefits of Hydropower, coincides with the start of the African Ministerial Conference on Hydropower and Sustainable Development in South ...