Economy

Good news for 70 pensioners who track down R650,000 in unclaimed pensions

“This may seem small compared to the billions of unclaimed assets, but it is always nice to see a direct impact”

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News | 16 January 2020

Metropolitan cites obscure rule to withhold full amount of interest from Durbanville man

Company denies claim but offers to pay half as “goodwill gesture”

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News | 2 December 2019

Elderly couple rewards kind stranger with … a business

Rhadi’s Meat Place is booming

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Brief | 2 December 2019

Trade union pension funds sit with billions of rands in unclaimed benefits

R19 billion owed to beneficiaries in metal industry

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Feature | 26 November 2019

Picket at Saldanha Steel over plant closure

“Despite what the company says, we will not give up”

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News | 21 November 2019

Battle to recover R42 billion in unclaimed pension money

Plans to march to Parliament

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Analysis | 19 November 2019

Greenmarket Square traders ask government to address refugee situation

Some traders on the square have closed up shop because their business has been disrupted

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News | 15 November 2019

Climate change plagues Western Cape agriculture

Farmers in Oudtshoorn estimate the drought has lost them billions of rands

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Feature | 6 November 2019

Informal traders protest in Mitchells Plain

Protesters demand safer trading environment

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Brief | 5 November 2019

Cofimvaba traders fear being evicted

Municipality plans to renovate business centre

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News | 24 October 2019

Low wages are not just the farmers’ fault, says US activist

Baldemar Velásquez shares experience at farm worker conference

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News | 22 October 2019

Chickens pay for guest house

Serial entrepreneur Nthabiseng Moshoeshoe has opened a guest house in Mfuleni

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Brief | 18 October 2019

Claiming the wasted opportunities in recycling

Pilot project in Brixton and Auckland Park brings informal waste pickers and residents together to benefit both

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News | 16 October 2019

Peter Chihoro cycles up to 80km a day fetching wood to make brooms

Zimbabwean has been making brooms for ten years

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News | 15 October 2019

Generations of Cape Town flower traders cut it in the city market

“Everybody in the family is here, cousins, aunties and great aunties”

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Photo Essay | 28 August 2019