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Renowned French economist Thomas Piketty noted that the country has made little progress towards closing the inequality gap, despite efforts to redistribute income. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Thomas Piketty: Direct wealth distribution needed to fix SA’s extreme inequality

The renowned French economist noted that the country has made little progress towards closing the inequality gap, despite efforts to redistribute income

The new apartheid is decentralised, encrypted in algorithms, and cloaked in the language of economic rationality and legal formalism and it’s not only in South Africa. Photo: File

South Africa must flatten the inequality curve

We cannot return to the pre-coronavirus crisis of unemployment, inequality and poverty. There is a moral incentive for the rich to give up some of their wealth and for the…

The former US president will be in Johannesburg for five days in July where he will also be hosting meetings

Obama to deliver 2018 Mandela lecture

The annual lecture will this year be held on July 17, the day before what would have been Mandela’s 100th birthday

Midnight deadline for Gauteng school applications

Restore hope to SA’s democracy

A better future is possible – but only if the scourge of inequality is banished

Letters to the editor: October 23 to 29 2015

Readers write in about farm workers, and poverty in Brics.

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SA unpicks Piketty’s Brazil knot

French economist Thomas Piketty says we should follow the country’s lead on a minimum wage, but we may have already done so.

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Who owns what in South Africa?

Thomas Piketty’s message about a global wealth tax found fertile ground in South Africa.

The economy won’t even the odds

Thomas Piketty will deliver the Nelson Mandela annual lecture on Thursday October 3, which will serve to highlight the issue of inequality in SA.