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Who gets the shot, who gets the shaft?

Opinion -
The vaccine can break the surge cycle, if the poor and the newly poor are prioritised
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Unpacking Johannesburg’s myriad anxieties

Friday -
Anxious Jo’burg, edited by Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden, acknowledges the city as a real place and not a horrifying stereotype
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Journey through anxious Joburg

Opinion & -
A new book has collected writing about the condition of living, yes, with a high crime rate, but also other, more pervasive existential urban stresses particular to the Global South
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The corporatisation of food in South Africa

Environment -
We can only end hunger when people have control over what they eat and how that food is produced
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E-payments for the unbanked are booming

Opinion -
The pandemic is providing mobile phone network operators with a unique chance to partner with fintech firms and banks to deliver clever e-commerce solutions to the informal sector in Africa
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The cost of Covid: 25 years of progress, halted

Africa -
Development has been set back by two decades, says the Gates Foundation Goalkeepers report
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How to feed thousands

Opinion -
During lockdown, a powerful civil society network stepped up to the plate and managed to feed hundreds of thousands. People kept asking how this was done...
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Heritage Month leaves much to be desired

Opinion -
Our economy may have doubled since 1994, but this growth has not trickled down to improve the livelihoods of the majority of South Africans
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Investing in innovation will reduce unemployment and poverty

Education & -
South African inventions that have changed the world are all underpinned by research, development and significant financial backing — to lose this would be tragic
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A net to catch the NEETs

Opinion -
A decade of reconstruction looms post-Covid. This is our chance to restructure the economy to build a more inclusive one
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Why a blanket approach to redressing spatial inequity is flawed

Opinion -
Equal distribution of resources will not close the access gap. Instead, resources must be deployed where they are needed most - and low-cost housing must move from the urban periphery too
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Black lives must matter in Africa too

Africa -
Although Africans must continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement, there is also the need for them to raise their voices against injustices in other African countries
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Basic income grant on the cards as Covid-19 threat intensifies

Business -
The pandemic has triggered a global economic crisis that will leave many South Africans without income security
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Workers battle for UIF payouts

Business -
Snarl-ups at the Unemployment Insurance Fund and bosses not assisting employees worsens people’s suffering
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South Africa must flatten the inequality curve

Opinion -
We cannot return to the pre-coronavirus crisis of unemployment, inequality and poverty. There is a moral incentive for the rich to give up some of their wealth and for the salaries of top earning civil servants, employees at state-owned entities and in the private sector to be cut
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Pay-TV inquiry probes the Multichoice monopoly

Sarah Smit
Africa’s largest subscription television operator says it is under threat amid the emerging popularity of global platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime

​No apology or comfort as another Marikana mother dies without justice

Niren Tolsi
Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre

Covid-overflow hospital in ruins as SIU investigates

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A high-level probe has begun into hundreds of millions of rand spent by the Gauteng health department to refurbish a hospital that is now seven months behind schedule – and lying empty

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