Business Maverick

Unpacking South Africa’s 2025 budget speech — challenges, dynamics and implications

By Lisakanya Venna

Maverick News

Interns burn tyres at hospital gates to demand ‘promised’ permanent jobs

By Bheki C. Simelane

South Africa

A tale of two contrasting towns in South Africa’s worst-run municipality

By Rebecca Davis and Victoria O’Regan

Maverick News

Cape Town contract waste collection workers down tools over unpaid wages dating to January

By Velani Ludidi

South Africa

Lightning strikes, trees burning from the inside — and bears — are all in a day’s work for SA firefighters in Canada

By An Wentzel

South Africa

Post office closures force grant recipients to go the distance to receive much-needed funds

By Mkhuseli Sizani

South Africa

Hundreds of contract workers march in demand of permanent status from Gauteng Department of Health

By Chris Gilili for GroundUp

South Africa

Masses of Cape Town job seekers queue hoping for short-term contracts

By Ashraf Hendricks

South Africa

South Africa must ascertain how social grants can alleviate the gruesome threesome of poverty, unemployment and inequality

By Daniel Meyer

Newsdeck

Union demands reinstatement of axed expanded public works programme workers

By Zoe Postman for GroundUp

South Africa

Hundreds protest in JHB against government’s response to Covid-19

By Zoe Postman for GroundUp

South Africa

Listen to communities’ demands to improve the province

By Zukiswa Kota