For many South Africans, the prospects of finding a job are diminishing every quarter – even more so for black women and the youth. The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey released by Statistics South Africa, points to an unemployment crisis that will only deepen further unless something drastic changes. The following articles highlight some of […]
Disability is an umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions, denoting the negative aspects of the interaction between an individual and the context in which they find themselves.1 The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) is a World Health Organization (WHO) framework which, rather than classifying people solely by their medical […]
Section 199 of the Constitution provides that the security services, including the SA National Defence Force, must act in accordance with the Constitution and the law, and in general be subject to civilian control and the oversight of Parliament. This is typical of a democracy – the armed forces are expected to refrain from political […]
If you’re reading this, the words on your screen have already travelled from a data centre halfway across the world through thousands of kilometres of fibre-optic or undersea cables, in just a fraction of a second. Whether you’re streaming a movie, using cloud storage or chatting with AI, your data is being stored, processed and […]
The rise of the fast fashion industry in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has had enormous social, economic and environmental consequences. It is a huge industry built on over-production, overconsumption, and the excessive use of natural resources to the detriment of the environment; and it engages in exploitative labour practices in rampant pursuit […]
In modern democratic governments, the second most powerful person after the president is often the finance minister. Proving the point, Minister Enoch Godongwana has, over the last few weeks, demonstrated that he is no pushover in exercising his authority over the national fiscus. His decision to withhold equitable share payments to 69 municipalities drew widespread […]
Over the past couple of months the eyes of the country were firmly fixed on the issues around the threatened expulsion of undocumented foreign nationals, along with fearmongering and intimidation amongst all foreign nationals, irrespective of status, and the isolated but not unplanned campaigns of targeted violence. Refugee Digest 102 – Migrants, Refugees and Displaced […]
Over the past few weeks, as the South African government has sought to show that it has a handle on the surge in xenophobic activities and issues relating to immigration, it has drawn attention to its record in the deportation of undocumented foreigners, as well as its efforts in repatriation programmes. Refugee Digest 101 – […]
Substance abuse among the youth in South Africa is a severe and growing public health crisis, with the country having some of the highest alcohol and drug consumption rates in the Southern African region. The Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Sindisiwe Chikunga, cautioned young people against the growing […]
The 16th of June 2026 marked 50 years since the Soweto uprising, when thousands of school children took to the streets to protest the imposition of Afrikaans as a compulsory medium of instruction under the apartheid government’s system of Bantu Education, and were met with bullets. The deep-seated cause was the Bantu Education Act of […]
