Health & Social Welfare
Can South Africa’s social grants help people make a better life? Research offers hope
Leila Patel 7 Nov 2025
News
Health & Social Welfare
Sassa issues urgent warning against illegal social grant deductions
15 Aug 2025
Health & Social Welfare
Huge delays in payouts to miners with silicosis and TB
Sipokazi Fokazi 25 Jul 2025
Health & Social Welfare
Social grants go unpaid as beneficiaries struggle with Sassa’s system
Marecia Damons 12 Jun 2025
Early Childhood Development
KwaZulu-Natal government ordered to pay crèches
Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko 28 May 2025
Food, Water & Energy Security
Understanding household food insecurity
Health & Social Welfare
Department of Social Development proposes changes to SRD grant application
Marecia Damons 9 Apr 2025
Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice
South Africa’s ‘working for water’ programme is meant to lead to skills and jobs: Why it’s failing
Sinazo Ntsonge 24 Feb 2025
Food, Water & Energy Security
Child malnutrition statistics are going the wrong way
CSI & Philanthropy
Bridging the ECD gap through parent and caregiver programmes
Food, Water & Energy Security
All children in South Africa have equal rights, but most are born into unequal conditions
Food, Water & Energy Security
Voices of the poor: "We need people to know we are starving"
Budget Speech
#Budget2023: Fresh billions in debt relief for Eskom announced
Katja Hamilton 22 Feb 2023
Budget Speech
Budget Justice Coalition is concerned about rising inequality in a time of disaster
21 Feb 2023
Budget Speech
#BudgetSpeech2022: No tax increases this year, among other surprise announcements
Katja Hamilton 23 Feb 2022
Financial Services
Strike calls for imminent sign-in of the National Basic Income Act
Katja Hamilton 14 Feb 2022
Higher Education
NWU awards honorary doctorate to politician Dr Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi
Issued by North-West University (NWU) 22 Nov 2021
Health & Social Welfare
5 key reasons why basic income support for poor South Africans makes sense
Stephen Devereux 2 Aug 2021
Food, Water & Energy Security
Covid-19 pandemic has triggered a rise in hunger in South Africa
Servaas van der Berg and Leila Patel 23 Jul 2021
Food, Water & Energy Security
SA's Covid-19 hunger relief efforts are working: why they must continue
Leila Patel 15 Oct 2020
Higher Education
Thuthuka: A programme that makes all the difference
Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice
South Africa has raised social grants: Why this shouldn't be a stop-gap measure
Christopher Webb and Natasha Vally 11 May 2020
Taxation & Regulation
Zero-rated VAT items: how South Africa is going about expanding the list
28 Aug 2018
Health & Social Welfare
Why poor people should be involved in designing solutions to poverty
Leila Patel and Marianne Ulriksen 11 Apr 2018
Food, Water & Energy Security
Why South Africa's social grants aren't eradicating malnutrition
Stephen Devereux 3 Apr 2017
Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice
Lessons from South Africa on why gender matters in social welfare policies
Leila Patel 23 May 2016
Health & Social Welfare
The right way to deal with teenage pregnancies
Catherine van Schoor 2 Oct 2015
