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With an economy larger than KZN and the Western Cape combined, it is the fastest growing province, writes premier Panyaza Lesufi.

Growth in earnings in construction, manufacturing and mining also contributed to the positive figures.

The latest figures come on the back of a much poorer performance in the previous quarter, where inustries bled thousands of jobs.

Employment in the formal non-agricultural sector went up by 0.4 percent between April and June, driven by community and business services, as well as the mining industry.

Affluent suburbs in Johannesburg and Pretoria, as well as those in central Johannesburg and Soweto, are victims of a water-consumption spike that has seen Gauteng with a supply deficit of almost 400 megalitres a day.

The ANC is so worried about its sustainability after the 2024 general elections that it has already devised a punitive plan for those it had deployed to government should they fail to garner enough votes for the party. And if its deployees fail to bring enough votes to ensure that the party remains in power, the levy they pay to the party could rise from the current 5% to 8% to fund the party.

The notion of race is a crucial marker of political, social, and economic inequality in SA. Much of this is attributed to a slew of race-based apartheid policies whose remnants have endured.

There seems to be no end in sight to the steep increases in food basket prices, with shoppers paying more than R40 extra in August for the same items.

GDP grew by 0.6% compared to the reserve banks estimate of 0.4%.

Abject poverty and a sickly mother and toddler in need of care have left three young children with no choice but to put their schooling on hold.The Qalashe siblings — aged 13, 11 and nine — have been attending school intermittently to look after their three-year-old brother and 29-year-old widowed mother, Nofika, who has been bedridden since 2021.