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  • Government to Tackle Housing Shortage – Zuma

    Government plans to set up a guarantee fund to incentivise the private banking and housing sector to develop new products to meet the country’s housing demand

    Government plans to set up a guarantee fund of R1 billion to incentivise the private banking and housing sector to develop new products to meet the country’s housing demand.

    President Jacob Zuma, in his state of the nation address in Parliament, said a key new initiative will be to accommodate people whose salaries are too high to get government subsidies, but who earn too little to qualify for a normal bank mortgage.

    Source: 
    BuaNews

  • EU Donates US$13m for Smallholder Farmers

    The European Union announces a US$13 million fund to help Zimbabwe’s smallholder famers

    The European Union (EU) announced a US$13 million fund to help thousands of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers, in a bid to revive the Southern African country's agriculture sector after years of decline.

    The EU's food security coordinator in Zimbabwe, Pierre-Luc Vanhaeverbeke, says that 80 000 households would benefit from the US$13 million donation through training and farming inputs such as seed and fertiliser.

    Source: 
    Mail&Guardian

  • 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

  • Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2009

    The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank has just released its annual flagship publication - the Annual Review of Development Effectiveness - for 2009. This presents findings on the outcomes of Bank projects and country programmes and the evolution of monitoring and evaluation (M&E). The review examines the Bank's support for environmentally sustainable development compatible with economic growth and poverty reduction.

  • Unused Land a Concern - Agri NW

    The under-utilisation of agricultural land in the North West province, transferred as part of the land reform process, is a matter of concern, says Agri North West

    The under-utilisation of agricultural land in the North West province, transferred as part of the land reform process, is a matter of concern. This is according to Agri North West.

    Agri North West president, Andries Beyers, points out that lack of ongoing economic activities on the land is contributing to the socio-economic fall in the specific rural areas and communities.

    Source: 
    Citizen

  • Africa Development

    Africa Development is the quarterly bilingual journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa published since 1976. It is a social science journal whose major focus is on issues which are central to the development of society. Its principal objective is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among African scholars from a variety of intellectual persuasions and various disciplines. The journal also encourages other contributors working on Africa or those undertaking comparative analysis of developing world issues.

  • PLAAS: The South African Index of Multiple Deprivation at Datazone Level and Recent Developments

    The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is hosting a seminar on the South Africa Index of Multiple Deprivation at Datazone Level on 8 October 2009 in Cape Town.

    Abstract:

    CASASP has just completed a fine-grained profile of multiple deprivation in South Africa - the South African Index of Multiple Deprivation (SAIMD) - for the National Department of Social Development. The SAIMD has been produced at 'datazone' level, which is a sub-ward-level statistical geography that was especially designed as part of the project.

    Event type: 
    Seminar
    Event venue: 
    PLAAS Boardroom, 2nd Floor, Main Hall, University of the Western Cape
    Event start date: 
    10/08/2009
    Event end date: 
    10/08/2009

  • Relief Fund Set Up for Attack Victims

    A relief fund has been set up, after attacks at an informal settlement in Durban claims two lives

    The Anglican Bishop of Natal, Bishop Rubin Phillip, on Tuesday announced that his church had set up a relief fund for victims of a Durban informal settlement attack which claimed at least two lives and saw many people displaced.

    "Many people have fled their homes with nothing but what they could carry.

    "They need urgent financial assistance. I have agreed to co-ordinate a relief fund and donations,"

    Source: 
    <br /> News24
    Article link: 
    http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/9183597ce2fa4dc6b6527c07f8ce...

  • The Human Price of Gold

    Press Release

    15 September 2009

    Date published: 
    09/15/2009
    Organisation: 
    African Monitor

  • Big Business, Poor Peoples

    Transnational corporations are one of the most important actors in the global economy, occupying a more powerful position than ever before. In their persistent battle to increase profits, they have increasingly turned to the developing world, a world that holds many attractions for them. But what is their impact on the poor?