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A New Response to Informal Settlements
housing urban planning
10 March, 2010

Government should address informal settlement housing backlog in the country. Addressing challenges posed by informal settlements will help government to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals such as providing access to basic water and sanitation. Underlying socio-economic causes of informal settlements should be tackled. When addressing challenges posed by informal settlements, government should provide the urban poor with cost effective access to urban environments. Relocating informal settlements is not always a solution; government should provide some form of ‘interim servicing or emergency relief’ including water, sanitation and solid waste removal

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Poverty Can Be Eradicated

The country requires ‘holistic and multi-facetted’ anti-poverty strategies that will ensure the poor are liberated from hunger and other forms of sufferings related to poverty. Government should go ahead with its plan to establish a National Council on Poverty

Indigenous Cultural Entrepreneurship in South Africa

The cultural landscape of South Africa tells a story of underdevelopment, disregard of certain cultures and also a story of preferential treatment of particular cultural communities and cultural practices. Many cultural communities in the country do not have the vision, confidence, self belief, persistence and expertise to establish cultural agencies which are capable of preserving, promoting and developing their indigenous cultures and position it as a central pillar of sustainable development. Cultural commissions or other state agencies have not done enough to empower communities to tap into the cultural industries sector and to create wealth for themselves.

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Africa is Hungry: How Women Can Make a Difference

“Hunger begins with inequality - between men and women, and between rich and poor. It grows because of perverse policies that treat food purely as a commodity, not a right. It is because of these policies that most developing countries no longer grow enough to feed themselves, and that their farmers are among the hungriest and poorest people in the world. Meanwhile, the rich world battles growing obesity”
South Africans Stand Up to End Poverty

“Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now!” mobilisation will take place from October 16th -18th, bringing together millions of people across the globe to call on world leaders to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As part of the SANGONet 2009 Social Media for NGOs Conference taking place in Newtown, participants will Stand Up on 16 October
On Being Poor and the MDGs

In this article, Idah Makukule writes that unless all sectors of society commit to challenging inequality and eradicating poverty, the MDG goals will remain out of reach. She describes how that in Vosloorus the MDGs have no meaning, for them what is important is their lived reality of a daily struggle to meet their daily basic needs, while trying to survive with limited resources
Why Should You Support Stand Up 09?

Stand Up & Take Action is the largest global initiative for action, working towards ending poverty, ensuring every child gets an education, it promoting fair and just treatment of women to name but a few. As a supporter of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), Stand Up & Take Action is not just about the 17th October - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - it is a six-year commitment to reaching the Millennium Development Goals.
Exclusive Breastfeeding Within a Social Context - Reflecting on Africa

Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a child’s life is not only a matter of concern for those working in the HIV and AIDS sector. While the benefits of breastfeeding are known, for many women this is simply not an option. Social norms and practices, programmes which ‘dump’ milk formulae in poor communities to relieve poverty and hunger and other factors all contribute to a complex social environment which affects women’s choice to breastfeed or not
Literacy Alone is Not Enough

We set up vast mass literacy campaigns and back-to-school government adult education departments all geared to giving people a second chance at literacy and the chance to get qualifications equivalent to Grade 9. But is this really what the nine million illiterate South Africans want from adult basic education?
From Basket Case to Food Basket in Africa – Lessons in Making Hunger History

In this article, Archbishop Njongo Ndungane reflects on the promise made by Malawi president, HE Bingu wa Mutharika to not go around begging for food and how that he has restored faith in Africa by demonstrating that the continent need not become the world’s basket case. He has done so by implementing effective ways to improve agriculture and combat food insecurity, but also shared these methods for the rest of the continent to benefit

The place of aid in Africa’s solutions to its problems

It is not difficult to imagine an Africa independent of foreign aid; in fact it is on the horizon. But this can only be achieved with higher economic growth, sustained efforts in domestic resource mobilisation, increased private capital inflows and remittances and arresting elicit capital flight; not by some ill-conceived arbitrary measure such as an abrupt cutting off of aid.

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Universities and the Millennium Development Goals 04/25/2010 04/27/2010

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Poverty Press Releases

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11/06/2009 Centre for the Study of Democracy Call for President to Establish a Commission of Inquiry into Violence Against Shackdwellers
10/15/2009 African Monitor Poverty and Hunger – How long will this continue to plague Africa?
07/14/2009 FoodBank SA FoodBank SA launches 67 Minutes to end hunger in South Africa campaign
03/03/2009 FoodBank South Africa South Africa’s inaugural food bank opens its doors in Philippi
04/17/2008 Let us scale up on MDGs and be Accountable, Inter Parliamentary Union Parliamentarians Told
04/01/2008 NGOs Demand Freedom for Ethiopian Anti-Poverty Campaigners
02/08/2008 GCAP Africa Welcomes Mbeki’s “War on Poverty” but Warns of Empty Hype
10/09/2007 Biowatch SA: Support Grows for Low-Cost Food Gardening and Seeds Saving
09/25/2007 uMthathi Training Project Celebrates World Food Day in Grahamstown
08/28/2007 Biowatch SA: Another Spin from GM Seed Giant Monsanto
06/07/2007 CIVICUS: Partnership Pledges to Promote Volunteers’ Role in Social Activism
02/02/2007 Oxfam: Joint Statement at the Closure of the 8th Ordinary Assembly of the AU

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