Economy
Community Work Programme workers upset over R3,700 a month earning limit
Workers say they must submit bank statements for three months and are fired if they earn above this limit
News | 25 August 2023
Langa’s cramped sewing school needs more space
The Sinakho Skills Development Centre and Entrepreneurship Training Academy
Brief | 21 August 2023
Khayelitsha Cookies prefers hiring people to using machines
From just two staff in 2005 to almost 80 women now, the hand baked cookie business has risen from humble beginnings
Photo Essay | 18 August 2023
Millions spent and 7 years later hawkers still sit without stalls
Only 60 of 320 stalls were built yet Mbhashe municipality paid the contractor
News | 8 August 2023
Post Office has failed to pay into employees’ retirement fund for three years
Workers’ contributions have been deducted from their salaries but not paid into fund
News | 18 May 2023
First glimpse of plans for Salt River and Woodstock
Some of the concerns raised at the meeting on Saturday were about green spaces, transport, and housing
News | 15 May 2023
Philippi pair beat crime and Covid with fast-food business
Estratweni Mobile Foods bounced back from pandemic
Feature | 15 May 2023
Panashe, four months old, lives in a ditch with his mother
Melissa Gwarimba just wishes the Musina municipality would provide bathrooms for homeless people
News | 28 April 2023
The Presidential Employment Stimulus has been a huge success, so why isn’t it a priority?
The massive, ambitious programme offers participants - and the economy - real hope
By James Stent
News | 24 April 2023