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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

The label is used so often it runs the risk of monotony. A new report sheds light on the full, multidimensional nightmare of South African inequality

A recent court ruling stipulates that the provincial government must release it scholar transport policy by January 31

Experts say the increase in GDP is largely a result of a decrease in load-shedding in the second quarter

The unemployment figures in Statistics South Africa’s latest quarterly report are shocking, but 3.5-million people are missing from the official count

The number of South Africans without jobs now stands at 6.7-million