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SALDRU launches income comparison tool

29th Jun 20182nd Jul 2018Fazila Farouk

Many South Africans don’t understand how exactly their incomes compare to each other nor do we have any idea where we are in the income distribution. To bring some clarity to this question, SALDRU has developed an income comparison tool that allows people to compare their incomes and see how rich or poor they are in comparison to each other.

Spotlight on Top Earners in South Africa

29th Jun 20182nd Jul 2018Fazila Farouk

So, how rich exactly are South Africa’s (SA's) top earners? It’s hard to tell, but the tax data for the years 2011 and 2014 was made available to us, so we dove in and discovered a few nuggets of information about SA’s millionaire class. PhD candidate, Janina Hundenborn, shared data on those earning above R10 million annually, as she talked about the effect of top incomes on inequality in SA at a SALDRU seminar.

SALDRU’s Malcolm Keswell on poverty traps in new documentary film ‘Uitgesmyt’

29th Jun 201827th Mar 2024Fazila Farouk

A/Prof. Malcolm Keswell, Lead-Principal Investigator on SALDRU’s Land Restitution Evaluation Study (LRES) provides commentary about the generators of poverty in a striking new documentary directed by Dr. Siona O’ Connell. The documentary, Uitgesmyt, draws attention to the question of forced evictions in rural areas during the apartheid era. Watch the trailer.

SALDRU Gets Excellent Press Coverage for World No Tobacco Day

7th Jun 20183rd Jul 2018Fazila Farouk

In the run-up to World No Tobacco Day on 31 May, SALDRU’s Economics of Tobacco Control Project produced a press statement that was released via UCT. We are extremely pleased to report on the outcome of this media outreach, which exceeded our expectations.

Post Grad Diploma Students Graduate!

31st May 201829th Jan 2020Fazila Farouk

The second batch of students from the “Postgraduate Diploma in Survey Data Analysis for Development” graduated in April 2018. DataFirst, SALDRU and the UCT School of Economics offers this one-year full time or two-year part time Post-Graduate Diploma in Survey Data Analysis for Development.

Leibbrandt Delivers Department of Science and Technology’s Budget Vote Speech

31st May 20181st Jun 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU’s Murray Leibbrandt delivered the Budget Vote Speech in his capacity as NRF-DST Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research at the Department of Science and Technology’s Budget Vote briefing, which took place at the Iziko South African Museum on 9 May 2018.

Paper on Urban Poverty Dynamics in South Africa Presented at Oxford Conference

31st May 20181st Jun 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU researcher, Rocco Zizzamia, presented a paper titled, “Poverty dynamics and life trajectories in urban South Africa: A mixed methods investigation”, at the Centre for the Study of African Economies conference, held in Oxford between the 18th and 20th of March 2018.

International Workshop Examines Income and Wealth Inequality

31st May 201828th Apr 2021Fazila Farouk

Murray Leibbrandt joined 72 of the world’s leading economists at the Paris School of Economics to examine income and wealth inequality in a workshop that sought to review different methodological approaches and establish data collection and production standards among different research groups.

Training Demonstrates Significance of Youth Explorer

30th May 201813th Dec 2020Fazila Farouk

The Youth Explorer, an interactive youth-focused portal, is at the centre of training policymakers and practitioners on evidence-based policy making. The training is part of SALDRU’s efforts to bring together research, policy and practise for the creation of two-way knowledge exchange.

SALDRU Co-Hosts Economic Transformation Workshop with South African Council of Churches

30th May 201831st May 2018Fazila Farouk

SALDRU co-hosted a workshop on Economic Transformation with the SA Council of Churches (SACC), as part of the National Convention of South Africa, an initiative of the SACC in collaboration with civil society organisations. The event took place on 24 May 2018 at UCT.