More than a third (38%) of people in sub-Saharan Africa were living in extreme poverty in 2019. The rest of the world was less than 10%.

Whose freedom is it anyway? A look at a historical day in South Africa’s history and whether or not it’s worthy of commemoration.

Race, gender and land are some of the driving factors that pushed Mzansi to the top of the list of unequal countries in the world.

The stark contrast between the lives of two coronavirus patients unearthed by Chinese contact tracers sparked a widespread debate on Thursday over the country’s entrenched wealth inequality.

Pressure has been mounting on South Africa’s cricket team to show support for the BLM movement after they “unanimously” decided not to take the knee before matches against England.

Pressure has been mounting on South Africa’s cricket team to show support for the BLM movement after they “unanimously” decided not to take the knee before matches against England.

The UN report found that socioeconomic inequality and multidimensional poverty remain major stumbling blocks in South Africa’s path towards human development.

Wikipedia is to institute a new code of conduct to battle what the organisation called toxic behaviour by some volunteers. Wikipedia is written and updated by volunteers.

Statistics SA (Stats SA) released the Inequality Trends in South Africa Report on Thursday, 14 November 2019. Here are their findings.

Wealth inequality in South Africa is not only intolerably high, with Gini coefficients of 0.93 in 2010/11 and 0.94 in 2014/15, it is also not reducing.

According to the SAHRC South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Can it be? Let’s look at the statistics.

The concept is ludicrous. Yet it’s very, very real.

Vlogger Nas Daily had heard many horror stories about South African settlements. When he came to investigate, kindness was the thing most likely to kill him

We’ve seen an explosion in massive open education online, as well as a major push by Microsoft to acquire an e-learning ecosystem by means of Lynda and Linkedin Learning.

South Africa is still facing the wrath of extreme poverty despite having everything which can put it in the league of developed nations.

A car distributor tweeted that women in South Africa take home more than a quarter less than their male counterparts. The statistic is mostly correct.

Rejoice: Our economy is junk, and our men are trash.

Inequality across the continent is worse than initially feared: Some of these stats might make you wince a bit…

The strange and enlightening tale of a South American dictator who tried to prevent white people from marrying other white people.

We don’t know what a Donald Trump presidency will mean for South Africa. But what South Africans should know is that America has just elected its most dangerous president ever because it has not dealt with two problems the country has also ducked: inequality and race.

Inequality in global education is at the forefront of global wealth inequality.

A census revealed women make more money than men in seven fields, but what’s more telling is where they earn much less than men.

Despite the African Union’s declaration that 2016 is the Year of Human Rights, a recent report released by Amnesty International shows that many governments in Africa still respond to conflicts and security threats with disregard for international humanitarian law and human rights.

If I could, I’d imagine myself into a powerful witch with the ability to sort bullshit from truth with the wave of my wand.

What do you get when you add World Bank data to some clever folk’s reporting abilities? The Gini Index, the be all and end all of global income equality.