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The Rea Vaya dream hobbles on

National -
In its latest guarantee, Johannesburg’s transport department says that the next leg of the city’s public bus system will be operational by September

Tuberculosis: South Africa’s forgotten killer

Health -
Sidelined during the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s deadliest disease has been working under cover

When the city of gold bled red

National -
In 1922, Johannesburg’s white workers united on a scale not seen before or since, unleashing violence against Black miners and destroying their potential to become an organised force.

The limits of a Wanderers without a crowd

Sport -
Watching the second Test match between South Africa and India from inside the hallowed environs of the Bull Ring was a discomfiting cricketing experience that will hopefully change soon

Gauteng health system is heading for catastrophe

Coronavirus -
While officials remain entangled in bureaucratic knots, clinicians warn that the continued closure of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital risks a ‘humanitarian disaster’

Dolomite hinders residential development in Gauteng

National -
Gold made Johannesburg. Today, a lesser-known mineral shapes the lives of some of the city’s impoverished residents

Ruling deals crushing blow to zero-hours contracts

National -
Ferrero factory workers have won the first battle in what might become one of South Africa’s next wars on casual and precarious work

Xolobeni activist receives death threat

National -
In an environment where activism against mining is becoming increasingly deadly, Nonhle Mbuthuma’s life may be at risk

Covid-19 exacerbates old electricity struggle

Coronavirus -
The coronavirus lockdown has added new dimensions to a decades-long struggle for electricity in the far west of Soweto, where residents have challenged the situation fiercely in recent weeks

Relocation rears its head: Bringing de-densification home in Alexandra

Coronavirus -
About 1 600 families in the Stjwetla shack settlement in Alexandra, Johannesburg are standing on the verge of seismic change. This is one of their stories

Early-morning exercise: Jo’burg’s three golden hours

Coronavirus -
Under level four of the Covid-19 lockdown, the hours from 6am to 9am became the time when inner-city residents could use local parks to escape the nightmare around them

What happened to the Covid-19 special grant?

Business -
The newly established grant intended to bring informal economy workers into South Africa’s social security net during the lockdown has had a disastrous start
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