Economy

Begging to feed their children

Women who beg at traffic lights with their children say they have no other options

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News | 22 April 2025

Fight over fish in Lesotho’s Katse Dam

Local fishers say they are arrested and beaten up but authorities deny this

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Feature | 22 April 2025

Lesotho gives in, approves Starlink licence

Civic organisation says this is a “sell-out”

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News | 15 April 2025

Alcohol industry used “regulatory capture” to delay liquor bill, say researchers

Liquor Amendment Bill still not introduced to Parliament after nine years

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News | 4 April 2025

Tariffs: Trump is punishing poor countries which export more to the US than they import

People in developing countries will lose jobs and poverty will rise

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Opinion | 3 April 2025

Lottery licence bidder accuses Minister of favouring Ithuba

HCI subsidiary Wina Njalo brought an urgent court application after Minister Parks Tau postponed deadline for new operator

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Law | 25 March 2025

The “biggest trout farm in Africa” and the failed R5,000 community fund

Lesotho Highlands aquaculture project offers little in return for its licence

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News | 14 March 2025

Budget: Social grants to increase and VAT goes up

Finance minister announces above-inflation grant increases

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News | 12 March 2025

Immigrant spaza shop owners battle to meet registration deadline

Problems with documents from Home Affairs affect shop owners’ ability to comply with President Ramaphosa’s announcement about food outlets

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News | 7 March 2025

Union calls on government to save steelworkers’ jobs

3,500 jobs at risk in the industry as ArcelorMittal considers retrenchments

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Brief | 21 February 2025

Budget postponement is a “blessing in disguise” says COSATU

Hundreds marched in Cape Town ahead of budget announcement

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News | 19 February 2025

Fresh outcry over hotel development next to historic Bo-Kaap mosque

Developers say the “goalposts keep moving”

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News | 4 February 2025