SILENT SPECTATORS At G20 summits, youth are always in speeches but rarely in the room 4 min 0 By Sibabalwe Nobandla
CIVIL SOCIETY WATCH — 18-24 AUGUST World Humanitarian Day, symposium honouring Babita Deokaran and more events in civil society 5 min 0 By Lerato Mutsila
BUDGET 2025 2.0 Funding for public employment programmes fails to keep pace with growing number of job-seekers 3 min 0 By Lerato Mutsila
BUDGET 2025 2.0 Voices against VAT: Protesters propose wealth tax, funding of SARS to alleviate financial burden on the poor 3 min 3 By Suné Payne and Victoria O'Regan
BUDGET 2025 Civil society slams pulled Budget, implores Treasury to ‘put poor first’ in revenue-raising plans 5 min 5 By Lerato Mutsila
BUDGET 2025 ‘Down with austerity,’ say SA trade unions and civil society organisations before Budget Speech 6 min 2 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
ACCOMMODATION CRISIS UCT faces campus shutdown as protesting students demand housing and fee block reforms 5 min 5 By Takudzwa Pongweni
STUDENT SUPPORT NSFAS board finally appointed in effort to fix financial and governance crises 5 min 1 By Takudzwa Pongweni
DAILY MAVERICK WEBINAR Young people have been seriously let down — nobody chooses a life where you have to ask for a handout, says Minister Gwarube 2 min 16 By Lisakanya Venna
CIVIL SOCIETY WATCH 26 AUGUST – 30 AUGUST This week — discussions on NSFAS failures, women’s land struggles, and the impact of court decisions on human rights 5 min 0 By Takudzwa Pongweni
YOUTH JOBS OP-ED Hey politicians, it’s time to pack away the election playbook and get to work 4 min 0 By Kristal Duncan-Williams, Clotilde Angelucci, Fentse Malatji and Siba Nobandla
CIVIL SOCIETY WATCH 22 APRIL — 27 APRIL This week — Freedom Day, food justice and Marshalltown Fire Justice Campaign march 5 min 1 By Takudzwa Pongweni
STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS Civil society gives Ramaphosa Sona resounding thumbs-down 8 min 5 By Takudzwa Pongweni
A PLAN THAT WORKS OP-ED Giving jobless young people an in into the labour market via short-term public employment 4 min 1 By Kristal Duncan-Williams and Clotilde Angelucci
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT Budget cuts cost us, say anti-austerity protesters demanding universal income grant 5 min 3 By Jim Mohlala
CASE FOR STATE SPENDING OP-ED The good, the bad and the growth dilemma – we can bolster well-being and reduce the cost of debt 5 min 2 By Liso Mdutyana, Zimbali Mncube, Kristal Duncan-Williams and Clotilde Angelucci
AUSTERITY RED FLAGS Treasury’s planned budget cuts ‘dangerous to the economy and well-being’, say SA economists, civil society 6 min 7 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
ADVANCING ENTREPRENEURSHIP OP-ED It’s lonely being an entrepreneur — technology and automated business platforms are your friend 6 min 0 By Clotilde Angelucci, Colin Timmis, Louis Janse van Rensburg, Lukhanyo Neer, Mark Frankel, Philip Delport, and Zinhle Novazi for the Heavy Chef Foundation
UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD OP-ED Where young South Africans live and go to school shapes their economic future 4 min 0 By Adam Cooper and Kristal Duncan-Williams
DAILY MAVERICK WEBINAR Small businesses a viable path to youth employment but equity obstacles need to be addressed 2 min 2 By Alinaswe Lusengo
SONA 2023 Jobs, energy, grants and graft – civil society breaks down what Ramaphosa got right and where he failed 9 min 6 By Tamsin Metelerkamp and Takudzwa Pongweni
