South Africa's informal sector: why people get stuck in precarious jobs: Understanding how people move through job sectors is crucial. Monkey Business Images/ShutterstockSouth Africa has a jobs crisis. In the fourth quarter of 2018, 6.14 million people were out of work, an unemployment rate of 27.1%, which is one of the highest rates in the world, along with sub-Saharan African … [Read more...] about South Africa’s informal sector: why people get stuck in precarious jobs | The Conversation
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UN says global fight against Aids is at ‘precarious point’
UN says global fight against Aids is at ‘precarious point’: UN says global fight against Aids is at ‘precarious point’: The United Nations’ HIV/Aids body UNAIDS said while deaths were falling and treatment rates rising, rates of new HIV infections threatened to derail efforts to defeat the disease. [LISTEN] Pay back the billions you dodged in taxes, Sars tells … [Read more...] about UN says global fight against Aids is at ‘precarious point’
Finance minister plugs some gaps, but South African economy is still precarious | The Conversation
Finance minister plugs some gaps, but South African economy is still precarious: South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan presenting the medium term budget. The country's economy remains in the doldrums. Nic Bothma/EPASouth Africa’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan presented the country’s 2016 medium term budget amid rising economic challenges marked by low growth, a … [Read more...] about Finance minister plugs some gaps, but South African economy is still precarious | The Conversation
The precarious road Zimbabweans travel to seek a new life in South Africa | The Conversation
A refugee illegally crosses the border from Zimbabwe into South Africa. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko A new book, Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence, tells the story of the lives Zimbabweans build on commercial farms across the border, as they escape crises at home. This is an edited extract. South Africa’s great spinal road, the N1, runs … [Read more...] about The precarious road Zimbabweans travel to seek a new life in South Africa | The Conversation
Media freedom has come a long way in Africa, but it’s still precarious | The Conversation
Workers arrange copies of the ‘Business Daily’, produced by Kenya's Nation Media Group, the biggest newspaper publisher in East Africa. Reuters/Thomas MukoyaReporters Without Borders’ latest World Press Freedom Index shows two interesting things. Namibia, ranked number 17, has the most improved press freedom environment in the world. And Africa, with the exception of North … [Read more...] about Media freedom has come a long way in Africa, but it’s still precarious | The Conversation
