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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 bank's 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.