- CWP: Putting the people of Alex to work - Mail & Guardian 30.09.2011 - Viewed topographically, Stjwetla is Alexandra's forgotten island, a slum within a slum fenced in by the shrubbery of the Jukskei River's eastern bank on one side and a sort of no-man's land separating it from the suburb of Marlboro Gardens on the other.
- Works Program a solution to Poverty - Financial Mail: Cover Story 2 - The answer to SA’s high unemployment problem might have been found, as Carol Paton discovers
- Community work programmes key to preventing collective violence - Initiatives that encourage local communities to work together to create social justice are vital in preventing collective violence carried out through service delivery protests and xenophobic violence, state the findings of a joint research report released by the Society, Work and Development Institute and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.
- Inequality and economic marginalisation: How the structure of the economy impacts on opportunities on the margins - In the face of a long-standing unemployment crisis that increasingly threatens social and economic stability, employment has at last taken centre stage in South African policy, and with this, focus is shifting to the structural constraints on employment creation within the economy. The New Growth Path, approved by Cabinet in November 2010, starts to tackle these issues.
- South Africa and the ILO team up to promote public employment and community work programmes - link to the press release by ILO on the recent CWP Leadership Course on Public Employment Programme (PEP) and Community Work Programme (CWP). This will also be translated into other languages and put on their Regional website.
- Nukes to the rescue? - Mail & Guardian 26.11.2010 - No energy source excites as much divided opinion as nuclear. Although it could be the panacea for South Africa's unwanted status as one of the world's worst carbon emitters, nuclear is also the most expensive and potentially dangerous energy source available.
- Nuclear industry set to gain from increase in capacity - Financial Times 02.12.2010 - Developing the sector could have benefits for wider job creation, writes Michael Bleby.
- Neighbours eye the potential of DRC’s Inga rapids - Financial Times 02.12.2010 - A planned scheme could supply electricity to 500m people but allegations of indifference and corruption hang over its future, says Simon Mundy.
- NGO to host Joburg green economy business briefing next month- Mail & Guardian 10.03.2011 - Sustainable living nongovernmental organisation Mama Earth will host a green economy business breakfast in Johannesburg on April 11, 2011, where the link between government’s industrial policy plans and South Africa’s sustainable development commitments will be explored.
- Local construction firms shifting focus to green projects - 25 Degrees in Africa - Climate Change - Camco, an international company specialising in climate change solutions, and Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS), an independent economic policy research institution, recently released a case study entitled “The Construction Industry’s Path towards a Low Carbon Trajectory” with funding from the British High Commission.
- A renewed focus on green energy - Mail & Guardian 12.08.2011 - Government finally took the wraps off its new-look green policy last week when it officially launched the Independent Power Producers (IPP) Procurement Programme.
- World needs progress at COP17 - Mail & Guardian 14.11.2011 - Durban, December 2011, will be the place where the Kyoto Protocol is either buried or resurrected. The protocol is the only legally binding international instrument the world has today for fighting climate change.
- Carbon tax debate: It's about more than just hot air - Mail & Guardian 14.11.2011 - Treasury and business are set for a showdown on the proposed carbon tax that is expected to come into force early next year after Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivers his 2012 budget speech.
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