Informal economy at highest risk from Covid-19 shocks
‘Value of informal sector is highly underestimated’THE GOVERNMENT's stimulus packages and measures to limit business failures and job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic erroneously...
Online learning punishes the poor
In our South African reality, online learning, tests and exams will only be enjoyed by the privileged fewThe QUEST to proceed with the academic...
Pandemic threatens Africa’s workforce
.CAPE TOWN - The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has put between 300,000 and 3.3 million people at a high risk of losing their jobs, depending...
From the desk of the President
.Dear Fellow South Africans, Many countries around the world have imposed coronavirus lockdowns with a view to saving the lives of their citizens. We have...
Food parcel corruption claims must be probed
Companies and public officials should not look to amass wealth during the lockdownIT APPEARS once again that corruption is rearing its ugly head and,...
Covid-19 Nightmare: Will it result in the postponement of new enrolments...
“You can employ someone to … make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear the sickness for you. Material things lost...
Mr President, relax some draconian Covid-19 lockdown regulations
Anger growing over regulations that are contradictory or even illogical and others that are draconian for their own sakeSOUTH Africans entered Day 2 of...
Mr President, please increase the child support grant for the next...
The quickest and most effective way to get cash into millions of poor households during the lockdownDear President Cyril Ramaphosa,We, a group of concerned...
Funds stream into Solidarity Fund coffers
. . . but struggling workers say they have nothing to givePRETORIA – Following the calls by President Cyril Ramaphosa for South Africans to...
Coronavirus kills as it unifies humanity in humility
The lockdown exhorts us to stop, think and value our mutual and inextricably bound lives on this planet togetherTHERE is a popular BBC radio...
