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Thuletho Zwane

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Thuletho Zwane

The fight for lower or no university fees should be taken beyond campuses to places where South Africa’s financial elite rule.

Financial Inclusion is more than just access to credit

It is now more than ten years since activists in the SACP led the campaign “to make the financial sector serve the people”.

Seeing red: The South ­Africans were kept waiting at Red Square by their colleagues from ­India

Brics media circus floors Russians

The hosts had clearly not been briefed about the idiosyncracies of their very different guests.

Connected? The hooked-on-social-media-world inhibits spontaneous conversation

#FeesMustFall and the greater struggle of racism

Nothing has changed. The people who could not access education institutions during apartheid are the same people who can’t access them today.

Major Kobese said he got a call from Thami Msomi, telling him there was a Mr Chawla from Sahara and Infinity Media, who needed some issues with visas cleared up. (David Harrison/M&G)

Habib stands firm on Wits EFF suspensions

Transformation "doesn’t mean you must beat up people" says the Wits VC, who stands by the suspension of seven students despite a staff petition.

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Habib defends suspension of Wits EFF

Wits Vice-Chancellor Adam Habib took to Twitter to defend the university council’s decision to suspend the Wits EFF command and seven other students.

Memprow SA mentors Naledi Makasi

Girls get the power to fight abuse

How to go beyond platitudes when it comes to teenage sexuality and abuse? One NGO has a solution: teach young women to know their worth and rights.

Youth

Young graduates fear falling into trap of ‘nothingness’

A quarter of South Africans are unemployed but in once thriving industrial areas such as the Vaal Triangle, even qualified youth can’t find jobs.

Political science master’s student Tasneem Essop prefers trying to change society for the better from outside the conventional gender-based political structures.

Activism: The ANCWL is out of its league

August, Women’s Month, has seen the league select a new president. But for many young women the body has no relevance to their political identity.

Multifaceted: Iman Rappetti was born to an Indian father and a coloured mother

Zuma reveals his economic plan to heavy criticism

The state will focus on inward opportunities to grow the economy by 3% by 2019, but critics say Zuma is "deluded" and his plans "flights of fancy".

Lucky Montana said Prasa’s board played an instrumental role in making sure the company was paid above the inflated tender amount it had already received.

Montana files corruption charges against tender winner

Former Prasa chief Lucky Montana has filed corruption charges against SA Fence & Gate, saying the firm defrauded the state’s passenger rail agency.

Inside Prasa’s dirty battles

Heated correspondence shows the fight for state contracts at SA’s passenger rail agency and suggests pressure exerted to pay an ANC-aligned supplier.

Former Prasa CEO Montana comes out swinging

Former passenger rail CEO Lucky Montana has branded his dismissal on Thursday as politically motivated.

Migrants wait to disembark from Aquarius in the Sicilian harbour of Catania

Wheels come off the taxi industry every other day

By labelling it "taxi violence", Gauteng is avoiding the volatile industry’s problems in Mamelodi.

Shattered window of a bus.

Taxi associations deny shooting of Putco bus

Suggestions of "taxi violence" have been slammed after a bus was attacked amid outrage that taxi operators were not given the chance to tender.

Shebeen owner Malefane ‘Dutch’ Kopa says the requirement that smokers be 10m from a door or window is impossible in townships – his neighbour is less than 5m away.
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Shebeens’ dreams go up in smoke

Furious tavern owners have complained that the proposed anti-smoking laws will not only destroy township businesses, but also kasi culture.

Advocate Paul Hoffman.

Dear Gwede, recall Zuma now

Activist lawyer Paul Hoffman has called for the recall of President Jacob Zuma, whom he said was "ever more conflicted and compromised".

The fashion designer who felt the call of the ancestors

Karabo Finger was called to be a traditional healer when her mother, the family elder and a spiritual medium, died and connected her to her ancestors.

Why has the rand weakened so much?

This week we heard reports that the rand had breached the psychological level of R12.50 to the dollar and R19.22 to the pound. What does it all mean?

Fail-safe: Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene. The treasury is eager to ­promote savings. Photo: David Harrison

Quality development needed to solve crisis of unemployment

Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene says SA’s high rate of joblessness could be solved with better skills training at tertiary institutions.

Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene (David Harrison)

AfDB sizes up candidates for president

Outogoing African Development Bank (AfDB) president Donald Kaberuka said this week the bank’s governance structures and business model "were wrong".