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Grandmothers are often left to raise unwanted kids. Surika van Schalkwyk looks at the struggles they face.
But not everyone is impressed with this eco-friendly gesture, writes Surika van Schalkwyk.
More than a month after xenophobic attacks shook Gauteng, feelings of desperation worsen among thousands of foreigners housed at temporary shelters.
Refugees from some countries are not seeking repatriation, having fled conflict at home.
Diesel use in South Africa, driven by home generators and the trucking of coal to Eskom power stations
As the sixth price rise of the year sent fuel heading towards R10 a litre this week — amid predictions it could reach R11 by year-end — there are few signs that South African…
Food prices are expected to rise rapidly in the next year because farmers are planting less as input costs escalate.
Welfare workers are picking up an alarming increase in the number of abandoned babies, seeing in it the effects of growing economic distress — and particularly rocketing food…
It’s freezing cold under a grey sky. Discarded pictures from a child’s colouring book swirl in the wind. A whistle blows and hundreds of people camping at the Jeppe police…
The Department of Home Affairs said on Wednesday it planned to establish shelters for foreigners who have fled xenophobic attacks over the last two weeks. The BBC reported on…
”Regina Chinyandi (21), of Zimbabwe, arrived at the Alexandra police station on Monday with her one-day-old baby, Prince, wrapped in a napkin. Upon her return home from the…
Ronnie Kasrils, Minister of Intelligence, said on Tuesday that "we are not just seeing spontaneous xenophobic attacks". "There are many social issues at the root of the problem,…
Alarming figures from the Department of Labour show a shortage of 220 000 farm workers on South Africa’s farms. Traditionally, agriculture has been a huge employer of people in…
South Africa faces a growing food crisis with declining domestic wheat production threatening to escalate food prices. Critics say the drop is because of a combination of…
Inflation has broken through the 10% barrier — raising fears that South Africa is entering a period of "cost push inflation" as trade unions warn they intend to ask for…
South African employers have short-changed the country’s intellectually impaired by employing only workers with physical disabilities and not intellectual ones. An oversight in…
The number of South Africans wanting to move abroad has risen sharply this year, according to emigration consultants — and they say Jacob Zuma and Eskom are to blame. South…
Surika van Schalkwyk looks into a training programme that aims to protect mentally disabled children from sexual abuse, and says with derogatory language still so recently used…
The Christian Motorcycle Association (CMA) is an organisation dedicated to spreading the word of Christ through motorcycling. ”We go where no one else goes,” says Stan Wilson,…
Driving drunk can change lives forever, yet many South Africans — perhaps lulled by a lack of effective law enforcement — do it every day.
