Picture: Siphiwe Sibeko/REUTERS – The DA constitution says that if it were the governing party, it will ensure “the progressive realisation of access to social security ...
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Picture: African News Agency (ANA) - The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) payment system and the cards used. By Isobel FryeIn the run up to the 2024 ...
By Isobel Frye“It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened. ” Arundhati Roy, ‘The God of Small Things. These days ...
Picture: Supplied – People are still going to struggle because the national minimum wage is not enough to solve debt and poverty. While there was only a slight increase ...
Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng/African News Agency File/Taken June 4, 2015 – Then Deputy President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa delivers a speech at the 15th national ...
Picture: Theo Jeptha / African News Agency (ANA) / taken May 24, 2022 – Entrepreneur Lindokuhle Msomi has been saving his R350 grant, and thanks to the National ...
Picture: ANA Files – Gary Lineker, whose simple act of speaking out for vulnerable refugees brought severe disruptions to the BBC sports coverage, upon which he ...
Picture: Ayanda Ndamane/African News Agency (ANA)/Taken January 28, 2020 – Moya Wekhaya Community Garden Market in partnership with SLE Farming hold a midsummer ...
Picture: Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) – Achieving Zero Hunger is a crucial component of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Tackling inequality ...
Picture: Phando Jikelo/African News Agency (ANA) – Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana at the City Hall delivers the Mid Term Budget Speech in October 26, 2022. ...
Picture: Itumeleng English/African News Agency (ANA) – Re-elected ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa at the 55th National Conference, Nasrec, Johannesburg on December ...
Picture: ANA File – People queue for their social grant outside the Pinetown post office in Cape Town, South Africa, in October 2020. Just under 16. 5 million children ...
Picture: Legnan Koula/EPA – A woman makes Kabakrou, or soap-stone, soap in Koumassi, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 30 July 2016. The kabakrou is a popular soap in Ivory ...
Picture: ANA file – Electrification has brought safety and cleaner energy, but it has also now built in a dependency on electricity that in the absence of the vision ...
By Isobel Frye The dream of Africa Rising often seems to be a delusion rather than a realistic goal. With the regular battering of natural disasters seemingly intent ...
Picture: Ayanda Ndamane / African News Agency (ANA) – Akhona Gxuluwe, Rooftop farm Manager from South African Urban food and farming trust, with its exciting new ...
Picture: Angelo Kalmeyer/ANA (files) – Members of the Western Cape Basic Income Grant (BIG) Coalition ...
Graphic: Timothy Alexander / African News Agency (ANA)By Isobel FryeWhile the "sturm und drang" about the extension of the R350 social security grants rage furiously ...
Graphic: Wade Gedult / African News Agency (ANA) – In South Africa, the legal defence of ‘after birthing’ saw life sentences being handed down to women where otherwise ...
Picture: Drippycat/Pixabay – The third largest underlying cause of death for children aged one to four years in South Africa is malnutrition, and amongst youth aged ...
Graphic: Timothy Alexander/African News Agency (ANA) – We need the unambiguous leadership and national commitment to disrupt the Apartheid wage structure of South ...