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Despite earning less than R5 000 a month, more than half of South Africa’s Generation Z are somehow saving up to R1 800 a month.
BUDGET

HOW TO: Manage your finances in 2023

The cost of living is not showing signs of moderating in the first quarter of this year and consumers need to be money savvy to stay afloat

  • Anathi Madubela
5 min read
‘Emergency’: Sean (RJ Cyler), Carlos (Sebastian Chacon) and Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins)
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

One movie, two takes: ‘Emergency’

Amazon Prime’s ‘Emergency’ doesn’t do enough – and maybe that’s enough

  • Rifumo Mdaka
  • Bongeka Gumede
6 min read
The department of mineral resources and energy said the new fuel prices would come into effect on Wednesday. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
EMERGENCY

Brief reprieve for motorists: treasury reduces fuel levy by R1.50 a litre until the end of May

The emergency fuel-price intervention was announced by the treasury in the parliament on Thursday afternoon, in light of skyrocketing global oil prices

  • Anathi Madubela
3 min read
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CIVIL RIGHTS

Covid-19 a stress-test for legislative emergency provisions in African countries

Research by a Cape-based academic centre found that the implementation of legislative provisions was done selectively in South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia

  • Marcia Zali
3 min read
No new coal: Unemployed men such as Bonginkosi Mhlanga scrape a living from abandoned mine shafts. Analysts warn that commodity prices, which have over the years sometimes papered over South Africa’s economic woes, will not keep the country going forever. (Emmanuel Croset/AFP)
ACCESS TO WATER

Young people call for an end to the terrible legacy of coal

‘The generation of 1976 did not fight to end the injustices of their time only for there to be the dawn of a climate apartheid’

  • Gabriel Klaasen
  • Sibusiso Mazomba
  • Mitchelle Mhaka
  • Sarah Robyn Farrell
3 min read
Increased intensity: A nurse in a Covid-19 isolation ward at the George Mukhari hospital gives her patients their meals. Healthworkers say it almost feels as if they’re dealing with a different virus during the second wave. There are far more patients and deaths, and the disease seems more intense. (James Oatway)
501V 2

Inside George Mukhari hospital’s second wave

The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism and James Oatway visited George Mukhari academic hospital to document the second-wave realities experienced by doctors and nurses

  • Bhekisisa Team
  • James Oatway
1 min read