COSATU calls for VAT increase to be scrapped

Union federation marches in Cape Town ahead of budget speech tomorrow

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News | 19 February 2019

Concern over high number of vigilante killings in PE

At least 13 people killed in past four months

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Brief | 19 February 2019

Angry residents shut down clinic

Patients say clinic is understaffed and service is poor

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Brief | 19 February 2019

NEHAWU shuts down TVET colleges in Pietermaritzburg

Colleges have been closed since Thursday

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Brief | 19 February 2019

Controversy follows colourful Australian mining magnate

Mark Caruso has made a handsome profit from South Africa’s natural resources

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Analysis | 19 February 2019

Farmers, miners and immigrants battle for land at old Vlakfontein mine

Moses Skosana has no title deed although he has been farming on the old mine compound for eight years

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News | 19 February 2019

Students shut down Mangosuthu University

University “shocked” by protest; asks for evidence of outstanding payment claims

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News | 18 February 2019

How to reduce unemployment? Two opposing views

How do we reduce unemployment? That is possibly the most important policy question facing South Africa.

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GroundView | 18 February 2019

Low wages will not solve South Africa’s unemployment problem, argues economist

Growth in manufacturing is essential but not at the expense of workers

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Interview | 18 February 2019

South Africa’s failure to create manufacturing jobs

To reduce unemployment South Africa needs to prioritise labour-intensive work instead of higher wages, write professors Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass

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Opinion | 18 February 2019

Lawlessness at Gupta mines was behind deadly tragedy

Men trapped underground at Gloria Coal Mine were allegedly stealing cable

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Feature | 18 February 2019

CPUT shuts building after flood

One student arrested, suspected of causing flood and “more arrests expected to follow in due course”

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Brief | 18 February 2019

CPUT nursing students say residences are not secure

Athlone campus SRC deny college management met with them

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News | 15 February 2019

Load shedding is killing small businesses

“We are losing profits. Our clients are impatient and always in a hurry. They can’t wait for about two and a half hours.”

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News | 15 February 2019

Buffalo City mum on its shoddy RDP houses

Residents say they occupied the poorly built, incomplete houses after they had stood empty for six months

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News | 15 February 2019

Nelisa Pambane travels hundreds of kilometers to sell scrap metal

“I may not be employed but I will never let my children and me starve.”

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News | 15 February 2019