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Truckers and taxi associations are protesting against the sharp increase in fuel costs.

22 Pic: Shutterstock The South African retail-clothing, textile, footwear and leather (R-CTFL) value chain masterplan has brought optimism to many women in rural Keates Drift in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, the government claimed recently. The area, one the poorest in South Africa since its shoe factory closed 26 years ago leaving 3,000 families without any source of income, is slowly building its way up in the clothing and textile sector. To reduce unemployment and poverty in the area, Lell...