Melted computers, corroded steel, broken glass, ash, dust, pulverised concrete, cellulose, asbestos, lead and mercury … and the bodies of the beloved
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Entrepreneurs are SA’s best hope, says World Bank
Unemployment could be halved if SA matched ‘self-employment’ rates of peer countries
Reshuffle kerfuffle
We are not quite sure what to make of the comprehensive shifting of the deck chairs on the glacially-slow-moving Super-Tanker, The Ramaphosa. Reshuffle was definitely the
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SA sports stars sneak into Tokyo disguised as park rangers
Team SA’s outfits for the opening ceremony of the Olympics brought to mind an outing of the Voortrekker Youth …
Begging for help to end the taxi wars
Being shot at, walking for miles and miles in the cold, losing their income: Horrified commuters ask: Where are the police? Where is the Army? Where are our leaders?
Violence in SA: an uprising of elites, not of the people
Blaming the poor for the recent violence is quite a typical response in our half-baked democracy, where all the old power structures and networks and etc remain intact
Postcards from the edgy
A shocker of a week for some of us, but probably just another bleak and brutal week for most South Africans.
Caster Semenya is not to compete allowed but …
Caster Semenya, a lifelong woman who refuses to take medication to alter her naturally occurring high testosterone levels, is not allowed to take part in the Tokyo Olympics, although Laurel Hubbard, who was born a man, will compete as a member of New Zealand’s weightlifting team
Level 4: what you need to know
Breakdown of what adjusted Level 4 lockdown, announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday June 27, means (with thanks to the National Department of Health)
Being homeless is not a crime
Please sign the petition to stop the criminalisation of homelessness in Cape Town