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However, the city manager remains positive about Johannesburg’s future, and his response to the DA’s criticism? It’s the ‘nature of the beast’

The Eastern Cape may have bucked the national trend in the worst possible way with Tuesday’s release of the latest quarterly employment statistics — but within the province, BCM bucked that trend with a leap in job figures.The latest Stats SA quarterly labour force survey covers October to December 2023, or Q4.

The Eastern Cape has recorded the highest unemployment in SA again, increasing to a massive 41.9%.

After two consecutive months of decline, annual consumer inflation increased to 5.3% in January from 5,1% in December.

South Africa's jobless rate rose in the fourth quarter of last year, official data showed on Tuesday, in another worrying sign for the government ahead of a general election.

Africa's biggest lender Standard Bank on Wednesday said that the South African Rand was likely to exhibit some level of risk going into an election year.

Every time *Jonathan's birthday comes by he gets swallowed by a cloud of embarrassment, misery and hopelessness.

The Eastern Cape social development department has started distributing sanitary dignity packs to almost 84,000 underprivileged pupils in a multimillion-rand project set to continue for the duration of the financial year.

Malnutrition among Eastern Cape children is at crisis levels. But children are being neglected all over the country by the government, writes Phylicia Oppelt.

South Africans' strong familial and cultural ties are key when deciding the names of newborns, says Stats SA.