About 23-million South Africans, or 37.9% of the population, are living below the lower-bound poverty line, according to the ...

South Africa's Limpopo province borders Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique. It is one of the poorest provinces in the country.

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 R1,558 ...

South African is starting a “national dialogue” Friday that is meant to bring all sectors of society together to discuss the country’s most pressing issues and find solutions. The talks, initiated by ...

And of course, the burden of poverty is almost entirely borne by black people, courtesy of our deeply unjust apartheid past ...

A new Stats SA and Unicef report using the MODA approach shows multidimensional child poverty declined marginally from 60,8% ...

South Africans now need at least R2 846 per person per month to cover basic food and non-food needs, according to the latest national poverty lines released by Statistics South Africa, reflecting the ...

More than six in every ten children in South Africa are growing up poor and lack basic needs like food, clean water, housing and schooling.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least 15 million South Africans suffer from food insecurity. That means they don’t have enough nutritious food to live healthy ...

As South Africa marks Freedom Day, the United Africans Transformation (UAT) party says the meaning of freedom remains unclear ...

A country that cannot create jobs for millions somehow finds money to maintain luxury convoys for a few. A state that cannot ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African is starting a “national dialogue” Friday that is meant to bring all sectors of society together to discuss the country’s most pressing issues and find solutions. The ...