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Skilled but no jobs: South Africa’s history of dispossession and exclusion demands purposeful intervention to build a more just and inclusive economy. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
ANC

Mr President, the government can — and should — create jobs

The private sector, experts say, cannot alone be entrusted with the important task of stopping South Africa’s unemployment tailspin

  • Sarah Smit
  • M&G Data Desk
11 min read
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Matric results 2021 mapped: how did your school do?

Which schools and districts improved and which didn’t? Our complete guide to the 2021 matric results.

  • M&G Data Desk
1 min read
Hundreds of South African members of the non-governmental organisation Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protest outside the Life Esidimeni arbitration public hearing on January 22, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. At least 143 mentally ill patients died after South African authorities moved them in 2016 from hospital to unlicensed health facilities that were compared to “concentration camps”, a government investigation revealed on January 17, 2018. Many of the deaths were due to pneumonia, dehydration and diarrhoea, as the patients were hurriedly shifted to 27 “poorly-prepared” facilities in an apparent cost-cutting measure that showed evidence of neglect. / AFP PHOTO / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)
COVID 19

SIU still to settle civil cases totalling R6.3bn

The Special Investigating Unit has cases dating back to 2019, but rejected that this is a problem

  • Khaya Koko
  • M&G Data Desk
5 min read
The 2024 elections will celebrate 30 years of democracy in South Africa.
ANC

Local government elections: Find your councillor

Though voter turn out was at an all time low, all residents must now hold their councillors to account. Find out who is representing your ward

  • M&G Data Desk
1 min read
An electoral commission official sits next to ballot boxes at the Barbaro Park high school in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, on November 1, 2021, during South Africa’s local elections. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)
ANC

Poll day: The Great Stayaway

Only a few people have chosen who will govern South Africa’s municipalities

  • Luke Feltham
  • M&G Data Desk
6 min read
Supporters of the ruling African National Congress man their party stand outside a polling station in Hangberg, an area of Houtbay, near Cape Town, on November 1, 2021, during South Africa’s local elections. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)
ANC

Is the ANC’s corrective action too little too late?

Although the ANC believes it has done okay in these elections, the numbers tell a different tale

  • M&G Data Desk
  • M&G Politics Team
8 min read
In the face of climate change, adequate infrastructure is essential. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
ANC

Eastern Cape premier Mabuyane lives large amid province’s poverty

Oscar Mabuyane and MEC Babalo Madikizela allegedly used a portion of state funds for struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s commemoration for their own benefit

  • Khaya Koko
  • M&G Data Desk
5 min read
The municipality has accrued billions of rand in wasteful spending, and more than 6 000 putrid bucket toilets
ANC

The smelly and corrupt side of ‘dysfunctional’ Nelson Mandela Bay

The municipality has accrued billions of rand in wasteful spending, and more than 6 000 putrid bucket toilets

  • Khaya Koko
  • M&G Data Desk
8 min read
Photo: (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
IKHUTSENG

Effluent Warrenton: ‘Our town is worth saving’

Warrenton’s residents live in sewage mess and battle with chronic water delivery problems

  • Sheree Bega
  • M&G Data Desk
12 min read
Andy Mothibe has been appointed as the new national director of public prosecutions. File photo by Paul Botes
ANDY MOTHIBI

Government fails to act on officials implicated in R3bn SIU recommendations

Half of the 127 managers incriminated in gross procurement corruption have yet to be disciplined

  • Khaya Koko
  • M&G Data Desk
9 min read
Since mid-July, the number of vaccines administered has consistently hit more than 200 000 jabs a day. By 31 August more than 12-million jabs had been administered. (Photo by LUCA SOLA / AFP)
C 1 2 VARIANT

What we know about the C.1.2 Covid variant, so far

Experts studying the new variant, C.1.2, are surprised by its substantial mutations but are confident current vaccines will be effective against it

  • Marcia Zali
  • M&G Data Desk
4 min read
Children carry the heaviest burden: inadequate nutrition, unsafe housing, limited early childhood development, and weak schooling outcomes overlap and compound.
CAPE TOWN

World Hunger Day: Children in South Africa still going hungry

One in seven South Africans reported child hunger in February and March this year, according to a recent survey

  • Eunice Masson
  • M&G Data Desk
4 min read
True mentorship is not about hierarchy. It’s about co-creation. Photo: File
BIANCA CHIGBU

There is less full-time work than there was a year ago

Over the last year, amid lockdowns and recession, the number of part-time jobs increased while full-time jobs took a cut in South Africa

  • Sarah Smit
  • M&G Data Desk
5 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
CORRUPTION WATCH

SAPS’ misplaced financial priorities inhibit it from tackling commercial crimes

The SAPS has received more than R500-billion over the past five years, yet commercial crime cases such as Steinhoff drag on

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
  • M&G Data Desk
6 min read
Youth unemployment is at an all-time high. Photo: Oupa Nkosi/M&G
AUSTERITY

Austerity budget unpacked

The finance minister has said it’s not an austerity project. But the numbers and economists disagree

  • Sarah Smit
  • M&G Data Desk
4 min read