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Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma is now a minister in the presidency responsible for youth, women and people with disabilities. (Photo by Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Paddy Harper: Will the Covid-19 cigarette ban come back to burn the ANC?

Flashbacks of nicotine deprivation and not poor service delivery may see a run on the polls on Monday

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Profiting in adversity: Davy Tsopo was a cleaner until he lost his job in the pandemic. Now he has his own successful business, Cakey by Davy.
BRIAN BHEBHE

Entrepreneurs strike Covid gold

Some enterprising people found ways for their ventures to survive the strictest lockdown levels

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
6 min read
Giwusa’s accusation against L’Oréal comes in the wake of the level-three reopening of the economy, which will send millions of workers back to work — increasing the chance of Covid-19 spreading in workplaces. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE

L’Oréal workers demand a shutdown of local plant, citing Covid-19 exposure

The French cosmetics company’s Midrand plant has recorded 16 Covid-19 cases in two weeks

  • Sarah Smit
6 min read