
Climate change a time for Africa to roar back
The battle for power and profits is on as the world moves towards the green agenda.
The battle for power and profits is on as the world moves towards the green agenda.
Climate change worsens inequality and inequality worsens climate change, warn experts.
Civil society organisations criticise what they say is an austerity budget
Informal settlements could drive South Africa’s solar revolution
There has been much comment recently on the lack of representation of minorities in the ANC's leadership structures
The criminal justice system faces severe challenges: as organised crime has risen, the capacity of the system has diminished. Here's what the numbers tell us
Academics unpack wins, tensions at COP27 and the way forward.
COP27 key outcomes: progress on compensation for developing countries, but more still needed
In the face of a decline in traditional union membership, it’s critical to focus on where resistance is taking place, rather than where it is not.
There is a widespread view that labour has become irrelevant as a force for change.
Climate Change and Me was launched in 2022 and became the largest course by student numbers ever offered at Wits University.
Eddie Webster pays tribute to Ela Bhatt, the founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India, who died on 2 November at the age of 89.
COP27 is the 27th Conference of the Parties (countries) that signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) hosted the 2022 edition of its Annual Inequality Lecture on 18 October 2022
When the minister delivers his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, he should show public leadership by announcing that the current approach to running the econ
Core public services – basic education, healthcare and criminal justice – account for a large share of the consumption basket of poor South Africans.
Core public services – basic education, healthcare and criminal justice – account for a large share of the consumption basket of poor South Africans.
Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of social protection programmes across the global south in what some have dubbed a development revol
In the post-apartheid era, women in South Africa have made significant strides in the labour market.
Pasha Podcast: Innovation in the digital space is not necessarily working for people in the global south.
Technological changes in industry have given rise to contending schools of thought about their impact on work and workers.
Mozambique’s trade unions have not been a strong force in society – which has left a space for others to fill.
Digital labour platforms are rapidly transforming the world of work.
The recent release of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) by Stats SA provides a glimmer of hope in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Narrative frames are fundamental to unifying ideologies. They frame what is possible and impossible, which ideas can be accepted and which must be rejected.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant and uneven impact on the global economy and on the lives and livelihoods of millions of people around the world.
The Public Economy Project has offered an independent appraisal of expenditure choices implied by the South African 2022 budget.
The first in the dialogue policy series hosted by The Future of Work(ers) Research Group at SCIS.
The book comes at a time of great upheaval in the global economy.
Utopian thinking, revisiting the ideas of Rick Turner in the current political context.
Basic income support is not a question of government “being generous”. The money will be taken from employed citizens and the affluent.
National Treasury’s strategy to overcome South Africa’s chronic fiscal crisis rests on highly uncertain political and economic foundations.
Greater urgency is needed in the response to pandemics, to end AIDS and to end COVID-19.
Greater urgency is needed in the response to pandemics, to end AIDS and to end COVID-19.
Recent developments in the organisation of production have led to the decline of wage employment across much of the world.
Trevor Ngwane shows how structures that emerged in the struggle against apartheid continue in democratic South Africa, now in conflict with the ruling ANC.
A wealth tax could make a significant contribution to alleviating South Africa’s ailing fiscal situation.
South Africa has clearly suffered the consequences of poor strategic decisions to this point. It doesn't need to continue along these lines.
The SCIS is looking for an evaluation specialist to support the establishment of a monitoring and evaluation framework for the Centre.
Many unemployed young people are engaged in a variety of economic activities. These may not necessarily be recognised as a form of self employment.
Rethinking capitalism requires that the primary focus should be on the distribution of economic power as the potential leading causal factor driving inequality.
Today we speak to Dr Hannah Dawson Senior Researcher: Future of Work(ers) Southern Centre for Inequality Studies
Today we speak to Kitso Kgaboesele, Researcher: Communications and Engagement, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies
Companies being required to go public with information about executive and workers pay packets is increasingly becoming the norm.
Today we speak to Zukiswa Kota, Programme Head at the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) at Rhodes University
The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) is an interdisciplinary research centre located in the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management.
How power is distributed in SA and how those with power think about wealth and income.
Today we speak to David C. Francis, the Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies
Today we speak to Siviwe Mhlana, Researcher: Inequality Studies at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies.
Today we speak to Sandiswa Mapukata, a research associate on the Future of Work(ers) project at SCIS
Today we speak to Ruth Castel-Branco, Research Manager – Technology and the Future of Work(ers) Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS).
New paper shares details on how to implement a wealth tax in South Africa.
Today we speak to Rosimina Ali, a Researcher in Economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Studies, (IESE)
Today we speak to Fikile Masikane, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Wits.
Today we speak to Olivia Faite Izidine from the National Institute for Social Action in Mozambique.
Today we speak to Professor Ravi Srivastava from the Institute for Human Development, India.
Today we speak to Thandiwe Matthews, a human rights attorney and doctoral candidate in Law and Development Studies.
Today we speak to Zerihun Berhane, an Assistant Professor in the Center for African and Asian Studies at Addis Ababa University.
Today we speak to Professor Edward Webster, Distinguished Research Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS).
The COVID pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies within the world of work.
Resolution of the fiscal crisis depends on faster economic growth which must be led by private investment.
Edward Webster elaborates on the importance of Karl Polanyi’s work for South Africa.
This is the second of three blog posts that will examine the relationship between digital technologies and work.
This is the first of three blog posts that will examine the relationship between digital technologies and work.
Digital divides ensure that only 11% of households have access to the internet.
The budget is one of the key tools that government has to effect meaningful change.
South Africa needs to focus urgently on how COVID-19 will reshape its labour market.
New level 3 regulations mark an important strategic shift in the government’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic.
South Africa cannot afford to embark on a strategy of extended periodic lockdowns. It needs to shift to mass testing and contact tracing.
The 1% point increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) rate this year has raised important questions about how the tax system can and should address inequality.
How is it possible that we can have a society with so much wealth and so much poverty?
It is widely accepted that SA is one of the most unequal societies in the world.