David van Rooyen has acknowledged the "colossal task" he faces, while speculation is rife that he will announce tax increases in the February budget.
The ANC’s tripartite alliance partner has publicly criticised the timing of Jacob Zuma’s decision to remove Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister.
As Nene walked and the rand plummeted, South Africans turned to Twitter humour to help ease the pain.
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation’s 2015 survey provides the stats to counter myths around the rainbow nation and four other SA fantasies.
The history of the struggle against slavery has not received the recognition it deserves and Emancipation Day slips by relatively unnoticed each year.
Women and children bear the brunt of drug and gang violence, but help is at hand in the form of the Saartjie Baartman and Women’s Legal centres.
Three friends have launched a scheme to train township pupils to grow healthy food.
The tough discipline of cycling is no match for the determination and esprit de corps of the Velokhaya Life Cycling Academy in Khayelitsha.
The weak rand and water shortages, along with costly imports, have been pushing up the wheat bill and with it the price of a staple loaf of bread.
Swedish fashion retailer H&M has just launched in SA, but has already managed to alienate the country’s 80% black population in just 140 characters.