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Commuters using minibus taxis will not see tariff increases just yet as taxi associations refrain from fare increases despite rising fuel costs.
BOLT

Bolt suspends pick-ups at Soweto Mall amid renewed taxi wars

On Thursday night, metered-taxi drivers allegedly attacked e-hailing operators at designated pick-up and drop zones near Maponya Mall

  • Anathi Madubela
3 min read
A Congolese man holds a banner during a demonstration against xenophobia in Johannesburg, on March 26, 2022 organized by the activist movement against xenophobic attacks Kopanang Africa. Kopanang is a Sotho words meaning “gathering together”. – In recent weeks, scores of protesters in South Africa have been staging demonstrations against undocumented migrants in what they have dubbed “Operation Dudula”, Zulu for “drive back” whose leader Nhlanhla ìLuxî Dlamini was arrested on Thursday according to the police. (Photo by LUCA SOLA / AFP)
AARON MOTSOALEDI

How do vigilante groups like Dudula come into being?

The state’s failure to act as a source of moral or political authority creates a vacuum that ‘seductive’ populist movements are happy to fill

  • Lyse Comins
7 min read
Volunteers and local workers take part in the clean up operation at the looted Bara Mall in Soweto, on July 15, 2020. – Many South Africans, taking matters into their own hands in a country where few rely on a chronically failing state, have started to clean up and repair. And the South African presidency even tweeted its thanks to “those who clean up”. (Photo by LUCA SOLA / AFP)
ESKOM

Rebuttal: Township malls should be rebuilt

Tshepo Mokholo’s article on township malls misses some Kasi’s economic and social points

  • Mabu Raphotle
5 min read