By Harriet Chibuta & Joseph Eliabson Maniragena While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten people in developing regions still live on less than US$ 1.90 per day – the internationally agreed poverty line. We talked to Dorothy Chulu from Maiteneke area, and she told us[…]
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Families believed that marrying off their girl child would get them out of poverty
News Apr 22, 2020
Ensuring quality education for all is not only central to the achievement of all of the Global Goals but in particular the goal to end extreme poverty. If I was educated and had skills, I would be able to get a proper job that pays well and would be able to support my family, said[…]
‘Explosive’ poverty figures a result of government neglect, says Archbishop Emeritus Njongonkulu Ndungane
News Aug 24, 2017
The explosive revelation that more than half of South Africa’s population is poverty stricken is the direct result of government’s failure to heed the warnings during the past 20 years by civil society organisations on escalating rates of poverty. On Tuesday, 22 August 2017, Stats SA announced that more than a quarter of the country’s[…]
The first of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals is “Ending poverty in all its forms everywhere”. This goal aims at eradicating extreme poverty for all people everywhere by 2030. But according to the report released by Stats SA on Tuesday, 22 August 2017, South Africa is predictably very far from meeting its National Development Plan[…]