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  • Indigenous Cultural Entrepreneurship in South Africa

    South Africa consists of people who live out their culture in different or in similar ways. Culture includes all the various languages which people speak as their mother tongue and as a second or even a third language. It also includes the music, literature, visual arts, dance, drama, oral traditions, traditional practices which include food, fashion, architecture and heritage and the particular beliefs of a cultural group which all contribute to a unique way of life that is in certain ways distinct from that of another cultural group.

    Author(s): 
    Christo van der Rheede
  • Helping informal traders to help themselves

    South Africa’s poor have headed government’s call to do it for themselves in the spirit of vukuzenzele. To millions of people affected by poverty and unemployment, the most obvious option to ‘do it for yourself’ is to start small business initiatives such as selling fruits and vegetables, clothes, fast food at a street corner, and operating ‘spaza’ shops.

    Author(s): 
    Isaac Mnguni
  • South Africans Stand Up to End Poverty

    Stand Up Campaign

    From 16-18 October, South Africans will join millions of people across the globe in the “Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now!” Campaign as they call on world leaders to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

    Last year almost 117 million people participated in this annual campaign, the majority from poor countries, breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest mobilisation of human beings in recorded history.

    Author(s): 
    Watson Hamunakwadi
  • On Being Poor and the MDGs

    Surviving in Poverty

    The severity of poverty worldwide prompted 189 world leaders in 2000 at the United Nations Millennium Summit to make a promise about the eradication of poverty by the year 2015. These commitments became to be known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Now with six years to go until the MDGs deadline of 2015 and for South Africa five years (as we have identified 2014 – 20 years into our democracy – as our target), we need to assess whether sufficient progress has been made in reaching the goals. This narrative paints a bleak picture.

    Author(s): 
    Idah Makukule
  • Child Hunger to Increase Due to Climate Change

    International Food Policy Research Institute report shows that up to 25 million more children will be malnourished in the next 40 years due to climate change

    Up to 25 million more children will be malnourished in the next 40 years due to climate change, with sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia the worst affected, according to a new report issued on Wednesday.

    The report, released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and detailing the impact of climate change on agriculture, says without climate change about 113 million children under five years of age will be malnourished by 2050.

    Source: 
    <br /> Reuters
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  • Mitchells Plain Traders Face Eviction

    Press Release
    11 September 2009

    Contact: Mischka Cassiem 073 128 6657 or 074 525 7336

    Date published: 
    09/11/2009
    Organisation: 
    Abahlali baseMjondolo
  • Donation for Nigeria’s 1m Orphans

    The NGO, Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care (GIPLC), has donated food parcels and clothes to one million orphans living in Nigeria

    The Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care (GIPLC), a NGO, has donated food parcels and clothes to one million orphans living in Nigeria.

    GIPLC coordinator, Nuhu Kwajafa, says the organisation has sent more than 400 orphans to schools by paying-off fees for the orphans.

    Kwajafa further says the GIPLC has also established a “save the needy” project in which orphans are helped with medical bills and hospitalisation.

    Source: 
    <br /> All Africa
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  • 500 000 Need RDP Houses

    More than 500 000 people registered for housing in Gauteng are still waiting for their homes to be built

    Gauteng MEC for Local Government and Housing, Kgaogelo Lekgoro, says more than 500 000 people registered for housing in Gauteng are still waiting for their homes to be built.

    "Having delivered 650 000 housing opportunities in the last 15 years which gave shelter to an estimated 1.5 million people, we are still faced with more than 500 000 people registered as waiting for houses on our demand database," says Lekgoro.

    Source: 
    The Times
  • Food Shortages in South Sudan – Grande

    UN humanitarian efforts coordinator says that an under-developed region in South Sudan is facing a massive food shortage

    Lise Grande, coordinator of (United Nations) UN humanitarian efforts in South Sudan, says a vast under-developed region in a grip of renewed tribal violence, is facing a massive food shortage.

    Grande states that, "The southern Sudan is faced with a massive food deficit caused by a combination of late rains, high levels of insecurity and displacement, disruptions of trade and high food prices."

    Source: 
    <br /> News24
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  • Sexwale Visits Diepsloot

    Sexwale visits Diepsloot informal settlement in an attempt to hear the problems of the people

    Human Settlements Minister, Tokyo Sexwale, has visited the Diepsloot informal settlement, where he stood in a pool of sewage when addressing residents.

    Sexwale noted that, “What is at issue here is that people are living in inhuman conditions.” He described his visit to the informal settlement as “a genuine attempt to hear the problems of the people”.

    We are standing on human waste. We are in Diepsloot. This is where we start our journey. We are starting a meaningful conversation with the people,” explained Sexwale.

    Source: 
    <br /> Business Day
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