Five South African human rights NGOs you should know about
To celebrate Human Rights Day on 21 March, here is a look at five of South Africa's NGOs
working for human rights in the country and beyond, organisations dedicated to the promotion of
human dignity, equality and freedom.
South Africa’s population
South Africa is a nation of diversity, with over 50-million people and a wide
variety
of cultures, languages and religious beliefs. Find out about our population groups,
their distribution across the country's nine provinces, and more.
The Constitution of South Africa
South Africa's Constitution, built on an acute awareness of the injustices of the
country's past, is widely regarded as the most progressive in the world, with a Bill
of Rights second to none.
South African charities and community care
Want to give back to your community, donate some of your money, skills or time? Here are some of the places where you can start.
Project Dignity offers girls support and female health education
A very real, critical – but overlooked – problem led one KwaZulu-Natal mother to design an award-winning out of the box solution. Project Dignity supplies Subz packs to rural and poor schoolgirls across the country, along with an innovative education solution. The project is so successful, it is being expanded to other African countries.
Black Economic Empowerment Codes of Good Practice
The government's Codes of Good Practice for black economic empowerment aim to bring an end to uncertainty over BEE deals while boosting South Africa's economic growth.
Empower Shack low-cost housing project nominated for UK design prize
An innovative, low-cost housing solution that could help to alleviate South Africa's housing shortage has been long-listed for the Royal Institute of British Architects...
Poverty levels in South Africa dropping: 2014 SA Stats report
Poverty levels dropped in South Africa between 2006 and 2011, reaching a low of 20.2% for extreme poverty and of 45.5% for moderate poverty, according to the Poverty Trends in South Africa report released by Statistics SA on Thursday.
Safer community saving with locally designed stokvel app
Yethu is a new locally developed app that helps make community stokvel saving safer and easier.
CD Anderson
Yethu, a new mobile app designed to make...
Young South African town planner invited to present rural land development study in US
Mthobisi Masinga, a young forward-thinking town and regional planner from Pretoria, has been invited to present his innovative research on rural land development to...
