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Calls are intensifying for former Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe to resign from Parliament and relinquish her role as president of the ANC Women’s League Photo: Phando Jikelo / RSA Parliament

ANC NWC resolve to show Tolashe the door

The decisions follows the working committee’s meeting on monday where it resolved that Tolashe should resign as an MP and the president of the ANC’s woman league

Calls are intensifying for former Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe to resign from Parliament and relinquish her role as president of the ANC Women’s League Photo: Phando Jikelo / RSA Parliament

Axe falls on Sisisi Tolashe

Ramaphosa appointed Sindisiwe Chikunga, the minister of women, youth and persons with disabilities, as interim minister of social development

Kolping Mbumba, the the director of operations at Heroes Academy.  His story, of loss, adaptation and survival, makes him relatable to the boys. Photo: Supplied

Mentorship, masculinity and change: A township programme rewriting boys’ futures

A Cape Town NGO, Heroes Academy, is using mentorship, socio-emotional learning and life skills to reshape boys’ understanding of masculinity and help prevent gender-based…

Social development appoints acting DG after Ramaphosa’s scathing rebuke

Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe was forced to retract a DG vacancy post she defended after President Cyril Ramaphosa clarified that the power to appoint someone in…

The future of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant beyond the March 2027 extension remains uncertain. Archive photo: Chris Gilili

Future of SRD grant uncertain, treasury says

The Universal Basic Income Coalition said the government’s proposals to link the grant to employment-related conditions could exclude eligible beneficiaries

Current Lebelelang Centre For The Disabled

Lebelelang Centre for the disabled

Lebelelang Centre – a mother’s 20-year plight for son’s education births Postmansburg’s first disability centre

Abalimi Bezekhaya farmers

Abalimi Bezekhaya

Abalimi Bezekhaya – The basket of food that keeps on giving in Khayelitsha

Minister Sisisi Tolashe with Abalimi Bezekhaya beneficiaries

The National Development Agency tackles the triple threat of poverty, unemployment and inequality

The National Development Agency has been empowering civil society organisations in South Africa for over 26 years

A view of crowded streets in the Kigali city center during the afternoon rush hour on April 05, 2024 in Kigali, Rwanda.  (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images)

The algorithm of love: Reimagining development leadership

Where algorithms see risk, we must see potential; where systems see statistics, we must recognise humanity

Integrating transport modes would enhance accessibility and efficiency for people of varying income levels.

Why integrated transportation systems are crucial for socio-economic development

The country needs a holistic integrated national master plan if the economy is to grow and needs are met

Mother and son embracing on dock at lake. Photo: Getty Images

Parents need healing before children can thrive

A new initiative aims to bring hope for South African families to achieve warm, loving and secure homes

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.   (File photo by Madelene Cronje)

Godongwana’s inaugural budget: austerity vs social security

Economists predict the finance minister will speak about the basic income grant, the effect of the July riots on the fiscus, and bailouts

South Africa continues to face an ever-increasing human development crisis, and that is best reflected by the number of 15- to 34-year-olds who are disengaged from both work and education. (David Harrison/M&G)

A net to catch the NEETs

A decade of reconstruction looms post-Covid. This is our chance to restructure the economy to build a more inclusive one