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22 August 2022 - Analysis from the IRR suggests South Africa’s latest employment numbers – due to be released by Stats SA mid-morning tomorrow (Tuesday) – will not be the good news the country desperately needs.

As trade unions plan to shut down the country on Wednesday, Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi says the strike will be about enforcing the economic rights of workers and the rest of civil society. Losi says part of this means putting pressure on government to end corruption, while pushing business to reinvest into the economy.

The bickering by opposition parties over sponsoring a vote of no confidence motion on President Cyril Ramaphosa makes a lively spectacle. Still, it gives a narrow party interest frame to broader national issues. Take the example of August 17 Seven opposition parties decided to bring a motion of no confidence in Ramaphosa to trigger his removal from office to allow investigations of the theft of foreign currency from his Phala Phala game farm to proceed unhindered.

The Institute for Economic Justice suggested the means test should be at least R1,335, which is government's measure of the upper-bound poverty line.

17 August 2022 - Largely unnoticed by the public, a nationwide prohibition on the transport of cattle is in effect — with the exception of those being sent to registered abattoirs for slaughter (“Minister bans cattle movement as foot and mouth spreads,” August 16).

More people now qualify for the R350 social relief of distress (SRD) grant after the means test was increased from R350 to R624.

UIF Commissioner Teboho Maruping outlines plans to train and employ young people, as well as to increase accommodation for students.

UIF Commissioner Teboho Maruping outlines plans to train and employ young people, as well as to increase accommodation for students.

Bruce Whitfield talks to Thanda Sithole, senior economist at FNB, about the latest mining and manufacturing stats.

There is nothing to celebrate about being a woman in SA, since womanhood faces abuse, violation and exclusion