The RevivingTownshipEconomies initiative aims to help small township and rural-based businesses rise ‘from the ashes’
Umlazi entrepreneur Zinhle Maphanga’s little sweet shop survived a global pandemic, devastating riots and more recently the floods that ravaged KwaZulu-Natal...
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Inside the municipal death spiralSmall-town South Africa is crumbling. Stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of water and power cuts, in streets piled high with refuse, and with no jobs available to offer a way out, residents have had enough, writes NatashaMarrian and DieVisser.
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Zimbabwe: Manhize - New Chinese Steel Plant Accused of Exploiting Workers - Staff Claim They Are Paid $4 a Day, Get No Time Off and Live in Squalid ConditionsWorkers building the $1bn steel plant for the Chinese-owned Dinson Iron & Steel Company (Disco) claim they are exploited, forced to work in inhumane conditions, and sleep crammed eight to a small room on the construction site.
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Sona was marginally positive — pending implementationGiven the hopelessness and despair of small businesses and households due to the energy crisis, there was always going to be cynicism over Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address, writes IsaahMhlanga.
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This, Mr Ramaphosa, is the real state of the nationIn towns and cities across the country visited by the FM, the stories we were told were of a bracing reality at odds with the fanciful story of progress espoused by President Cyril Ramaphosa. For how long can the ANC avoid the truth?
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