The coalition faces the task of implementing long-promised transformations while managing political contradictions
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Amid directionless policy after 30 years of democracy, the country’s prospects continue to be driven by the whims of miners and their financiers
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The country’s biggest city will continue to grow as people seek jobs and a better life. But a ‘resentment’ towards urbanisation has prevented the government from unlocking its economic opportunities
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From the early frontier wars against colonialism to the struggle against apartheid and in recent times the fight for economic equality, the culture of activism has evolved. But can it still be effective in bringing about change?
Ramaphosa’s long delays in appointing the new BEE Advisory Council shows he has little interest in allowing others to cash in on the BEE deals that earned him his fortune
In his latest book on economic and social inclusion, Vusi Gumede addresses the question of how to get the country back on track.
Readers write in about Nkandla and the National Development Plan.
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/ 3 November 2011
Small business owners from Ekurhuleni have warned of xenophobic violence if the Gauteng government does not step in.
The Gauteng housing department is to demolish at least 115 RDP houses less than five years after the houses were handed to their beneficiaries.
Is BEE going the same way as the RDP and a number of other post-1994 policy acronyms?
More than 126 RDP houses in Ekurhuleni’s Thintwa village will receive a major facelift, the Gauteng housing department said on Monday.
ANC MP Rose Sonto, also the head of the South African National Civic Organisation in the Western Cape, this week repeated unsubstantiated allegations that foreigners are buying government-subsidised houses and forcing South Africans to live in shacks.