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A levy refund announced by finance minister Enoch Godongwana to ease pressure on food producers may not necessarily lead to lower food prices.

TimesLIVE profiles some of the women recently murdered in South Africa and asks experts how to tackle gender-based violence.

Technically it’s a 13th cheque, but some companies now spread the payments out over the year to help staff make ends meet.

Some of the province’s poorest matric pupils can now aspire to much-sought-after tertiary education in the new year.

Adding the metric would broaden a key indicator used by economists to compile estimates of GDP at a time when consumers are being forced to find alternative sources of energy because Eskom can't meet demand.

S&P Global Ratings has forecast higher national debt for South Africa as the government plans to take over a portion of Eskom's debt to rejuvenate the struggling power utility.

Like all countries on the continent we are a country with a young population. A youthful population is an economic asset that has to be harnessed and exploited for purposes of economic growth and development in general.

While we try to protect visitors arriving on our shores, one hopes government tries just as hard to ensure tourists and citizens alike feel safe

For every R100 of revenue generated or received by higher institutions in 2021, R36 was from tuition fees, Stats SA said on Friday.

The department also provides a comprehensive agricultural support programme, in the form of grants, and the Ilima/Letsema programme, for subsistence producers, enables people to produce their own food.