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Fort Hare University, along with the Centre University of Technology, Free State, has been subjected to xenophobia accusations spread on social media. Photo: Supplied

Fort Hare University: Lies and xenophobia distract from the jobs crisis

State disinvestment in public services, infrastructure and manufacturing ensured that millions would remain trapped in cycles of poverty, with or without immigration

Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero at the official handover of the Southern Farms Housing Project. (X)

Johannesburg will expropriate property, but ‘not just for the fun of it’

Mayor Dada Morero said abandoned buildings will be seized to address the 1996 to 1997 RDP waiting list

The ANC under Cyril Ramaphosa is attempting to forge a new government of national unity. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Will the ANC’s government of national unity 2.0 drive change?

The coalition faces the task of implementing long-promised transformations while managing political contradictions

Working together, governments, the private sector and regional bodies can solve the infrastructure problems hobbing the growth of the mining sector in Africa. Photo by Emmanuel Croset/AFP

30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY: SA’s economy neither Gear nor there

Amid directionless policy after 30 years of democracy, the country’s prospects continue to be driven by the whims of miners and their financiers

Housing shortage: Several buildings in the central district of Johannesburg are occupied by a large number of people who live in substandard conditions. Photo: Marco Longari/Getty Images

Joburg fire: Housing policy fails people – and the economy

The country’s biggest city will continue to grow as people seek jobs and a better life. But a ‘resentment’ towards urbanisation has prevented the government from unlocking its…

Jay Naidoo. (Photo by Patrick Durand/Sygma via Getty Images)

Has activism won? Jay Naidoo reflects on the loss of people’s power and how to win it back

From the early frontier wars against colonialism to the struggle against apartheid and in recent times the fight for economic equality, the culture of activism has evolved. But…

The ANC, heads to this weekend’s policy conference more concerned with pushing back on attempts to improve governance than finding solutions to the many structural fault lines that have been so crudely exposed by our economic deterioration. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

ANC lacks the political will to push economic transformation

Ramaphosa’s long delays in appointing the new BEE Advisory Council shows he has little interest in allowing others to cash in on the BEE deals that earned him his fortune

​Government’s economic plans all sound the same. We need a socioeconomic overhaul

In his latest book on economic and social inclusion, Vusi Gumede addresses the question of how to get the country back on track.

Letters to the editor: June 12 to 18 2015

Readers write in about Nkandla and the National Development Plan.

Business owners threaten xenophobic violence

Small business owners from Ekurhuleni have warned of xenophobic violence if the Gauteng government does not step in.

Will BEE continue to be?

Is BEE going the same way as the RDP and a number of other post-1994 policy acronyms?

Hundreds of RDP houses in Ekurhuleni to be revamped

More than 126 RDP houses in Ekurhuleni’s Thintwa village will receive a major facelift, the Gauteng housing department said on Monday.

Sanco chief in war over RDP houses

ANC MP Rose Sonto, also the head of the South African National Civic Organisation in the Western Cape, this week repeated unsubstantiated allegations that foreigners are buying…