Gearing up for 2024 election battles: Let’s Review Social Security Policies.
OPINION: A national social security system is required in every modern state. How that system is constructed will both reflect the current soul of a society, and determine the fullness of its possible future, writes Isobel Frye
Where does the power lie?
The last two weeks in South Africa have left millions of people in the dark, literally and figuratively, writes Isobel Frye.
Wages and Equality: a long way apart
Wages are still the single most important source of income, although social grants are a close second. Wage inequality is the largest driver of income inequality in South Africa
World Bank’s concerns about extreme poverty is ‘a sham’
OPINION: Poorer countries had to use their fiscal space to keep up loan repayments to the World Bank while member countries didn’t, writes Isobel Frye.
ANC ‘out of touch with the miserable realities’ of the people
OPINION: Poverty is dynamic, you need a safety net that does not disappear the first month you make some money, writes Isobel Frye.
Can the Commonwealth of nations play a more critical role?
OPINION: The question of who should be head of the Commonwealth is something that has also received attention in recent times. This is an office that has no fixed term and has executive functions, writes Isobel Frye.