Can we afford NOT to have a BIG in South Africa? – Podcast

Can we afford NOT to have a BIG in South Africa? – Podcast

In this episode, Guy Standing, internationally renown expert and widely published author on BIG speaks to Duma and Isobel about his experience as advisor...

Podcast: High Price to Pay for the Rising Cost of Living

Podcast: High Price to Pay for the Rising Cost of Living

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says he has established a committee of ministers to assess the impact that the conflict in Ukraine will have...

More People Believe They Are Living Under Poverty in South Africa

More People Believe They Are Living Under Poverty in South Africa

Executive Director, Isobel Frye, speaks on Subjective Poverty in South Africa on SABC News; “We know that the burden of poverty in South...

Nkululeko Majozi Speaking on Subjective Poverty in South Africa

Nkululeko Majozi Speaking on Subjective Poverty in South Africa

Poverty in South Africa is directly linked to income inequality. Any measure that can fix the current situation needs to be linked to Income...

Podcast: In The Ring With Eusebius McKaiser – Can we afford a Basic Income Grant?

Podcast: In The Ring With Eusebius McKaiser – Can we afford a Basic Income Grant?

I invited Isobel Frye (Director, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute) to weigh in on what is becoming an internecine policy debate about unemployment,...

SPII Newsletter December 2021

SPII Newsletter December 2021

This last quarter has seen almost unparalleled academic contributions to the global call for universal basic income guarantees. SPII is proud to have been...

Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), Q3, SPII Analysis

Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), Q3, SPII Analysis

As we mark the end of another calendar year of the Corona pandemic and associated impact, The Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII)...

Newzroom Afrika: Discussions on the QLFS Q3, 2021

Newzroom Afrika: Discussions on the QLFS Q3, 2021

Isobel Frye, the director at the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute; country director at International Labour Organisation South Africa, Dr Joni Musabayana; Dr...

Cape Talk/702: QLFS stats call for a Basic Income Grant

Cape Talk/702: QLFS stats call for a Basic Income Grant

Christina  van Straten, Basic Income Grant Advocacy intern at The Studies In Poverty And Inequality Institute, joins Cape Talk on the statistics that Statistics...

SAfm: SASSA applicants raise concerns

SAfm: SASSA applicants raise concerns

The SASSA points in which people were able to receive their SASSA grants were closed during the pandemic, and haven’t been rectified yet. SASSA...

Reflection on MTBPS 2021 and Socio-Economic Rights

Reflection on MTBPS 2021 and Socio-Economic Rights

Dear colleagues, UNICEF South Africa and SPII have the pleasure of inviting you to a public dialogue on the impact of the Medium Term Budget...

BIG in SA –  the BIG website in SA on 17 November 2021.

BIG in SA – the BIG website in SA on 17 November 2021.

The launch of the BIG website South Africa is a country that takes your heart and soul and can be cruel and kind, but...