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Graduates are being left in the lurch by a higher education department that is simply unable to deliver the crucial certificates proving their qualifications - in some cases dating back to 1992

Perhaps the government does want us to know how bad things really are

The data shows 17 000 more people have died than usual since May, but only 6 000 deaths have officially been attributed to Covid-19

Stats SA’s latest GDP figures show the country’s economy has shrunk 2% in the first quarter of 2020

The president’s R500-billion economic package offers a new deal for desperate South Africans across the class divide

Technology has the potential to solve many of the country’s social problems such as electricity production and the eradication of pit latrines

President warns of tougher economic times ahead as the world’s leaders plan for a global economic slowdown

The country’s economy grew by only 0.2% in 2019, after it experienced contractions in both the third and fourth quarter

As the government bails out state-owned entities, it is leaving a hole in the budget of the agency tasked with telling us what South Africa looks like — one that is crucial to government decisions

New research details how the department was broken, profiting a select few and leaving a third of South Africa’s population without clean water

State health facilities and the school curriculum have failed the youth, forcing young mothers into unsupported single parenthood

More than 5.3-million households and 21-million people don’t have clean water, despite money being spent on dams and pipelines to deliver water to 95% of the population. Sipho Kings looks at how R1.3-trillion worth of infrastructure has been subject to so much corruption and mismanagement that many places are worse off than in 1994, leaving the state with a R898-billion bill this decade

Most sectors of the economy reported negative growth, with mining, manufacturing and transport suffering the biggest falls

The emergence of an upwardly mobile black elite is a success story, but it remains under wraps

The low consumer price inflation could lead the central bank to cut interest rates, says economists