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Unemployed men inJohannesburg wait on a street corner for work for part-time work. Photo: Naashon Zalk/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Employment equity and decent work will support economic growth in South Africa

The Democratic Alliance, the Free Market Foundation and the Institute of Race Relations have flawed views regarding employment equity

File photo: EFF leaders during their 10th birthday celebration. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

EFF’s seven economic pillars ‘lack substance and feasibility’, says report

While the IRR report tore into the Economic Freedom Fighters’ key principles, author Ivo Vegter also said the party had legitimate grievances This content is restricted to…

Former president Jacob Zuma. Photo: Supplied

Poll: Zuma’s popularity strong as ANC loses its grip on KZN

The disgraced former president has a 63.1% favourability score in his home province. Whether that translates into votes for his new party remains to be seen This content is…

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Can coalitions stabilise the economy?

With the right amount of planning, political coalitions can work – and even create the environment for better economic solutions

Reliable power is essential for economic growth in key sectors such as manufacturing, where growth is vital for absorbing labour and addressing high unemployment levels. (Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images)

Eskom U-turn on energy state of disaster and utility’s exemption

The two interventions have received major blowback with critics accusing the government of undermining public oversight

Students hold placards during a protest against allegations of rasicism on campus brought to light by a documentary called Luister (“listen” in Afrikaans) on September 1, 2015, in Stellenbosch.  (Photo : RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

What is at the root of white anxiety in post-apartheid South Africa?

Some white people think any discussion of racism or its legacy is an attempt to shame or condemn them for the ‘sin’ of their whiteness

Mbali Ntuli hopes to ‘save’ the Democratic Alliance.

Ntuli joins the race to ‘save the DA’

KZN MPL’s letter to members says the DA is in ‘permanent damage control’ and she won’t watch as the party ‘disappears into oblivion’

Two changes are to be made for a court to determine how much must be paid for expropriated land. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Courts to guide land expropriation

Two bits of law need to be approved before a court can decide if land owners will be compensated

Allegations of racism have dogged the DA. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Merging with an apartheid-era party has been the DA’s undoing

By joining forces with the New National Party, the DA set itself up from the start to bear the racism tag

(John McCan/M&G)

IRR poll shows national loss for the ANC

The poll comes amid a News24 report that the DA’s research showed a decline in support for the ANC in Gauteng and a surge in support for the DA

Say what? As Pravin Gordhan delivered his mid-term budget speech last week

​Slime and other matters of importance to South Africans

What do most South Africans think about? Not state capture or the president’s future, it seems.

Gauteng high earners are leaders in consumer debt

Gauteng has the highest consumer debt per capita of all nine provinces and accounts for almost half of total consumer debt in SA, says a new survey.

New research says the poor

Editorial: Don’t short-change the poor

The Institute of Race Relations argued in a report this week, that grants have been crucial to improved living standards over the past decade.

South Africa’s graveyard generation mourns

It is Saturday in Soweto and the Aids-ridden township is geared up for its foremost weekend activity: funerals. Traffic officials are dispatched en masse to the major streets…