The quiet erosion: What has happened to subsistence farming in South Africa?
Updated 2 hours 40 minutes ago There is a gradual decline in households engaged in subsistence agriculture. What does this mean for food security and for households’ wellbeing?... →
From fragility to resilience: The emerging market journey
By: Econ3x3 23rd September 2026 In many ways, South Africa is a textbook example of a resilient emerging market, but the country still faces the “silent crisis” of tepid growth.... →
Promises and limits: What the SRD grant tells us about cash transfers in constrained labour markets
By: Econ3x3 9th September 2026 How effective are cash transfers in improving labour market outcomes in contexts where jobs are scarce and barriers to self-employment high? We... →
Operation Vulindlela: Opening the road
By: Econ3x3 4th September 2026 Operation Vulindlela is a joint delivery unit of the Presidency and the National Treasury, established in 2020 to implement a limited set of... →
The economy we are waiting for may never arrive: we need to imagine new paths to development
By: Econ3x3 27th August 2026 South Africa’s development challenge is not only economic; it is also one of imagination. We need to find new areas where growth, innovation, and... →
Flawed methods lead to dangerous conclusions on SRD lifeline
By: Econ3x3 14th August 2026 This article critiques two 2026 academic papers that argue that the Covid-19 SRD grant led to reductions in household income and expenditure and... →
Sweet smell of success: how South Africa overtook Spain as the world's largest citrus exporter by volume
By: Econ3x3 6th August 2026 Last year, South Africa overtook Spain to become the world’s largest exporter of citrus. It marked a turning point in the world’s citrus industry... →
How tariffs on manufacturing affect employment in the services sector
By: Econ3x3 30th July 2026 South Africa faces unemployment and deindustrialisation. Manufacturing tariff cuts in the 1990s were expected to reallocate workers into services.... →
Rethinking title deeds in former homelands: what do households want?
By: Econ3x3 22nd July 2026 In significant parts of rural South Africa, people occupy land not through formal title deeds but through a system of land allocation rooted in the... →
Why we should count our chickens
By: Econ3x3 16th July 2026 South Africa has 168 million chickens. What does their location tell us about food security and the resilience of this key agricultural sub-sector?... →
