In partnership with the Alexander Forbes Financial Services Research Institute, Rethink Africa made the major chapter contributions to the company's annual Benefits Barometer publication.

This issue explored how the financial services sector, and the private sector in general, should be responding to the challenge of savings and wealth amongst ordinary South Africans, in particular the poor, black majority.

This research report explored the need for, and the feasibility of, a national minimum wage in South Africa.

It explored the socioeconomic context of South Africa, successful minimum wage programmes in other countries and what impact a national minimum wage in South Africa could have.