EWN

Why the Poor Don't Kill Us: 'Living in SA, how could you not read this book!'

Flux Trends' Bronwyn Williams reviews this exploration of why the poor in India don't rise in revolt by journalist and ...

Less South Africans see themselves as poor - but aren't happy

Fewer South Africans now describe themselves as poor than a decade ago, according to Statistics South Africa’s latest survey, ...
Time

South Africa’s Poor Tune In to Mandela’s Funeral

Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs on assignment for TIME of people watching Nelson Mandela’s funeral on television in Alexandra township, in Johannesburg, one of the poorest urban areas in all of South ...
Yahoo

Sebabatso Mosamo, an AP visual journalist in South Africa, has died

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Sebabatso Mosamo, an Associated Press visual journalist in South Africa who documented elections, the COVID-19 pandemic and her country’s struggle with poverty and ...
The Economist

Why South Africa should scrap Black Economic Empowerment

Some months after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, he told businesses that South Africa must “deracialise the exercise of economic power”. Such words unnerved the ...
Phys.org

South Africa's power crisis: Going off the grid works for the wealthy—but could deepen injustice for the poor

South Africa's current electricity crisis has been described as "a perfect storm". A number of factors have converged to reach this point: an aging and inadequately maintained fleet of coal power ...
LAist

Uneven Growth Leaves South Africa's Poor Behind

With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...
The New York Times

South Africa Is a Warning

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. When people in the rich world imagine a migrant from the poor world, I ...