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City of Tshwane employees embarked on a strike after the municipality reneged on a 5.4% pay increase deal, instead offering no increase.

How many working age white and black people does South Africa have?

For the first time since Covid-19 hit the world the Forum of Community Journalists NPC (FCJ) again hosted its annual awards in person on 14 October in Gauteng.

According to practically every empirical metric, the DA-governed City of Cape Town outperforms South Africa’s other metros. But for the residents of the Cape Flats and the city’s townships, this may be scant consolation. According to practically every empirical metric, the DA-governed City...

Recalibration, refresh buttons and revivals occur through the disruption seen in the flux, fluidity, and especially experimentation (hard paywall, soft paywall, no paywall) around how journalism is to be paid for in a media ecosystem that is shifting to online, with concomitant social media and disinformation.

The Covid-19 media survival guide 20 Dec 2020 The M&G offices emptied out during the Covid-19 pandemic, and now most of the staff work from home. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G) At the beginning of 2020, Mail & Guardian chief executive Hoosain Karjieker was feeling upbeat about the year ahead. After a difficult 2019, marred by retrenchments, plans to rebuild were already in the pipeline. Then Covid-19 hit. “When we realised that this was real, we started considering what impact it would have on the b...