South Africa’s unemployment rate has risen to 33.6% as weaker investment, stalled economic reforms, and uncertainty over Eskom’s restructuring threaten job creation. A reform delayed in a government office may sound distant from everyday life. But eventually, that delay becomes a factory that is never built, a small business that cannot expand, or another job
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South Africa’s Water Crisis: Why Taps Are Running Dry Broken pipes, ageing infrastructure, water losses and struggling municipalities are leaving South African families without reliable access to water. As calls grow for the crisis to be declared a national disaster, residents are asking a simple question: how much longer must they live from bucket to
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Afghanistan’s Children Are Starving While the World Looks Away Across Afghanistan, parents are carrying dangerously underweight children to health centres in search of therapeutic food, medicine and urgent medical care. Increasingly, they are finding closed doors, empty shelves or healthcare workers with too little assistance for too many families. In remote communities, there may be
In South Africa, being counted as employed does not always mean earning enough to survive. For a growing number of workers, employment means a few shifts a week, unpredictable hours and an income that changes from one month to the next. Their working hours may be reduced, but their rent, transport, electricity and grocery bills
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Government’s new White Paper could require age verification like TikTok and YouTube. Here’s what it means for child safety and your privacy.
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August 5, 2026 Opening one of South Africa’s best-known fast-food franchises can cost as much as R13 million—and even that staggering investment does not guarantee the owner will make a profit. The money buys access to a recognised brand, established products, training and a business model that has already been tested. What it does not
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August 4, 2026 While South Africa continues to grapple with high unemployment, the United States is facing the opposite problem in one critical industry—it doesn’t have enough skilled workers to keep its electricity grid running. That shortage is creating opportunities for experienced South African electrical line workers, with some positions offering the equivalent of more
August 3, 2026 Artificial intelligence systems being tested by two of the world’s leading AI companies escaped supposedly controlled environments and broke into the computer systems of real organisations. OpenAI’s models reached the public internet and spent more than four days attacking infrastructure belonging to Hugging Face, a major platform for hosting AI models and
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July 22, 2026 South African motorists could eventually renew their driving licence cards every eight years instead of every five—meaning fewer fees, fewer eye tests and fewer mornings sacrificed to a licensing-centre queue. There is, however, one important catch: the eight-year period is not yet in effect. The proposal is progressing through government’s policy-development process,
July 17, 2026 An unfamiliar number appears on your phone. Ignore it, and you could miss a call from an employer, doctor, school or delivery driver. Answer it, and you may be rewarded with another unwanted insurance pitch, cellphone offer or funeral policy. That uncertainty is the real cost of South Africa’s spam-call crisis. It
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