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No new coal: Unemployed men such as Bonginkosi Mhlanga scrape a living from abandoned mine shafts. Analysts warn that commodity prices, which have over the years sometimes papered over South Africa’s economic woes, will not keep the country going forever. (Emmanuel Croset/AFP)
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Young people call for an end to the terrible legacy of coal

‘The generation of 1976 did not fight to end the injustices of their time only for there to be the dawn of a climate apartheid’

  • Gabriel Klaasen
  • Sibusiso Mazomba
  • Mitchelle Mhaka
  • Sarah Robyn Farrell
3 min read
Municipalities have failed to prioritise the rights of labour tenants and farmworkers
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Farm dwellers fight to access water and other basic services

Municipalities have failed to prioritise the rights of labour tenants and farmworkers

  • Sarah Smit
6 min read
A Gauteng township association, which forcefully removed foreign shopkeepers, disagrees with two economists and wants the government to protect the informal sector
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There are limits to what a capitalist government can do in this crisis

We need an entirely new way of doing things to put an end to poverty

  • Greg Dor
10 min read