Reflections from a recent visit to South Africa, where UNICEF works to safeguard the lives and futures of children.

South Africa has been struggling for decades to reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment and raise the rate of economic growth. Economic growth has been slow since a recession in 2008.

South Africa's unemployment rate stands at a staggering 33.5%, one of the highest in the world. Coupled with an alarming poverty rate - where more than half of the population lives on less than R1 ...

One intervention being considered in South Africa is basic income support to relieve poverty among unemployed citizens. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, basic income support had been on the policy ...

A sea change in the system of governance is needed to fix South Africa and rebuild an economy plagued by serious crises. The president’s speech couldn’t cover up for the fact that the last ...

He is the president of the country and the ANC. Multidimensional poverty in South Africa, he said, had “really gone down”, decreasing from 17.9% to 7%, and was “continuing to move further ...

Now 27, she grew up in a poor township in South Africa's Eastern Cape province and ... to eradicate period poverty." She now delivers sanitary pads to hundreds of schools in the Eastern Cape.

Scientific evidence shows that climate change is already negatively affecting inequality and poverty, but the extent to which this happens at the micro-level remains relatively unexplored.

South Africa’s Democratic Alliance has proposed reforms to bolster economic growth and called for a spending review after it blocked a surprise plan to hike value-added tax, delaying the ...