Steps to address poverty fall far short of mark

Posted by Alison Siljeur | 16 Mar, 2007

by Anna McCord, Delivery Magazine, March 08, 2007 Edition 1
In a country where 18 million people live in households with an income of less than R300 per person per month, the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is failing to achieve its objectives. It's time to consider alternative responses to South Africa's crisis of persistent chronic poverty. Read the article.

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Chronic poverty: Are we creating an underclass in South Africa?

Posted by Alison Siljeur | 15 Mar, 2007
Development Dialogues Monograph 8, Reflections by Anna McCord

"It is not just unemployment that is a problem; it is the nature of unemployment and where the burden falls, which is increasingly on the low and unskilled black population." Read the Monograph.

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Sample Selection Bias and the South African Wage Function

Posted by Alison Siljeur | 12 Mar, 2007

This SALDRU seminar is being presented by Cobus Burger.

Date: 14 March 2007
Time: 13h00
Venue: Robertson Room, 4th Floor, Leslie Social Science Building

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Rising unemployment in South Africa: A Dynamic Birth Cohort Panel Analysis

Posted by Alison Siljeur | 6 Mar, 2007

This Saldru seminar is being presented by Dieter von Fintel

Date: 7 March 2007
Time: 13h00
Venue: Robertson Room, 4th Floor, Leslie Social Science Building

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Measuring poverty in SA not as easy as drawing a straight line

Posted by Alison Siljeur | 2 Mar, 2007

by Hilary Joffe, Business Day, 28 February 2007


GOVERNMENT is committed to halving unemployment and poverty by 2014, in line with the promise the ruling African National Congress (ANC) made in its 2004 election manifesto. But though we have an official unemployment rate - Statistics SA's most recent Labour Force Survey puts it at 25,6% - we have not, until now, had an official poverty rate. Read the article.

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"Ask some whites to leave"

Posted by Alison Siljeur | 28 Feb, 2007
by Pearlie Joubert, Mail and Guardian, 26 February 2006

Nowhere else in Cape Town is the contrast between the wealthy and the wretched as visible and as stark as in Hout Bay. And nowhere else are people as desperate, fed-up and suspicious of one another. Caught between the mountains and the cold blue Atlantic, Hout Bay is truly beautiful. "This is probably the only place in the world where I can literally sit with my feet in human shit and my back against my R2 000 shack and look up to the mountains and across the valley on to a R3-million house and think: I live in a lovely place," says Priscilla Moloke, who lives in Mandela Park, Imizamo Yethu. Read More

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