South Africa ranks among the top 20 contributors to marine plastic pollution worldwide, yet remains paralysed by a 22-year-old plastic levy which has failed spectacularly. We cannot recycle our way out of a manufactured crisis. The truth of the matter is that plastic pollution does not impact on everyone equally.
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0 claims checkedThe possible targeting of journalist Marianne Thamm by state intelligence highlights a serious threat to press freedom and democratic accountability in South Africa.
A body that decides who builds what across Cape Town – worth billions of rand a year – has quietly written itself free of term limits, withheld a legal opinion ratepayers paid for, and left a forged…
Recent immigration enforcement has prompted many employers to revisit the immigration records of foreign nationals whom they may have employed, trusted and worked alongside for years. They may…
South Africa’s higher education system relies heavily on the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) accredited journal list to determine research subsidies, academic performance,…
Public procurement is where the state meets the market. It is the mechanism through which government buys the goods, services and infrastructure it needs to govern: medicines for hospitals, textbooks…
Education in South Africa is at an inflection point. Pupils are using AI the way previous generations used calculators and the internet, except the results are faster and almost impossible to trace.
This winter, in KwaZulu-Natal, sugar cane is standing uncut because there is nobody to harvest it. This same winter, 8.1 million South Africans are looking for work and cannot find it.
South Africa’s manufacturing capabilities and output have been under strain for at least the past decade, and the pressure has intensified more recently due to an intersection of global forces: rapid…