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Perilous journey: The Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa and local stakeholders recently held a meeting with officials from the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport to discuss a solution to the R74 road crisis in the region.
DRAKENSBERG

Road crisis leads to plea for toll gate to be opened

The alternative route to the N3 leading to key tourism sites has collapsed in sections, making it dangerous for drivers and restricting visitors

  • Lyse Comins
6 min read
One of four trucks that was torched on the N2 near Ermelo in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
JULY 2021 CIVIL UNREST

Police identify 12 suspects for truck torchings, Cele says

The police are out in full force protecting national freeways against further attacks on trucks after 21 vehicles were torched this week

  • Lyse Comins
5 min read
Reeling: Volunteers and workers clean up the looted Bara Mall in Soweto. The destruction and theft in the country is a more than R50-million blow to the already struggling economy. (Lucas Sola/AFP)
BARRICADE

South Africa’s growing social unrest proving as big a threat to growth

Third quarter GDP numbers have interrupted a four quarter economic growth streak because of the July unrest.

  • Anathi Madubela
5 min read