South Africa’s poverty levels have increased sharply over the past five years with an additional 3 million people now classified as living in absolute poverty.
The DA claims there has been an "upsurge" in the number of farm attacks in South Africa since the start of the national lockdown.
The rural economy should not be forgotten in SA’s post-Covid-19 recovery plans.
There is consensus that land reform is an indispensable yet complicated process often overloaded with multiple objectives including economic, social and political underpinnings.
South Africa’s economy, battered and bruised, is now reopening. Over the past few weeks, much has been said about how the post-Covid-19 world would (or at least needed to be) vastly different from what went before.
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only generated a far-reaching social and economic crisis in South Africa, but is also exposing two major fault lines in the society.
