Townships

VUT should aim to become an entrepreneurial university

Article Teboho Pitso - 29 Oct 2019

Helping students develop critical thinking skills and complex problem-solving abilities is crucial if universities are to remain relevant

Four ways to give township entrepreneurs a much-needed boost

Article Elvis M Sekhaolelo - 26 Aug 2019

If they are going to be the job creators that policymakers hope for, a major overhaul of mindsets and infrastructure will be necessary

Alex citizens just want it ‘to be nice’

Article Aaisha Dadi Patel - 30 Apr 2019

Alexandra citizens are struggling, with housing woes and unkept promises making life difficult for them

Township development — yes, we can!

Article Staff Reporter - 26 Jan 2019

Created to exist on the fringes of society, townships still carry the economic legacy of apartheid

Township sanitation remains the pits

Article bogdan TagDiv - 7 Dec 2018

The commodification of basic services is to blame for the current appalling situation

Tavern associations say tobacco bill will choke township businesses

Article Khulekani Magubane - 15 Aug 2018

The Bill was released for submissions and comments in May this year, and the period for public comment on the bill closed on Wednesday

Townships are still a world apart

Article bogdan TagDiv - 8 Sep 2017

Bids to unleash their economic potential have failed largely because the motives, networks and practices of the informal economy are ignored.

Slice Of Life: The journey to opportunity

Article Carl Collison - 24 Jul 2017

"Opposed to this colonial idea of what a city is, townships are actually cities"

Slice of Life: Searching for ‘dapper guys in townships’, the black kind

Article Carl Collison - 12 Sep 2016

Siphamandla Dlamini wants to collaborate with visionaries.

Township funeral: Wie sien ons?

Article bogdan TagDiv - 28 Mar 2015

In March, Soshanguve made the news after a video showing women twerking and gyrating at a cemetery during a burial ceremony, went viral.

MEC: Gauteng’s townships need huge transformation

Article bogdan TagDiv - 23 Feb 2015

Gauteng MEC of Economic Development Lebogang Maile says the country's large inequality gap is what contributes to criminality in townships.

In the business of building shacks

Article bogdan TagDiv - 14 Oct 2014

Sheffield Road in Philippi has become one of the city’s best-known places to buy a shack, where builders make a living providing affordable housing.

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