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Inequality remains on the top of the policy priority list for most countries in the world. Branko Milanovic, a leading scholar on inequality, recently delivered a lecture titled “Recent changes in the global income distribution and their political implications” at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Imraan Valodia asked…

An estimated 800,000 people work as domestic workers in South Africa. Most are black women from marginalised backgrounds. It’s therefore not surprising that the bulk of the literature about domestic work focuses on females performing cleaning, cooking and care work. What’s missing in debates about domestic workers’ job-related experiences and…

Operation Dudula changes tactics from evictions and violence, with plans to fight elections on platform of expelling foreigners

NEW DELHI: All-rounder Marco Jansen played a pivotal role as South Africa secured a come-from-behind series victory against Australia, in a thrilling fifth and final one-day international (ODI) at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, winning by a commanding margin of 122 runs.

The launch of the Elite World Cup is part of a broader plan by its founders to ignite the EV sector in South Africa and other developing nations

Thousands of Johannesburg inner-city residents occupy buildings in conditions like those that led to the fire at 80 Albert Street that killed at least 77 people. They are living in derelict multi-storey buildings, former office blocks, sectional title buildings, tenements, warehouses and factories.

After 40 years in the business, Sabi Sabi is still a world class safari stay, says Suzannah Ramsdale

The South African government says a retired judge will lead an official inquiry into last week's deadly fire at a derelict building in downtown Johannesburg

The fire that killed at least 76 people last week in a rundown apartment block in Johannesburg has exposed not only the urban decay of South Africa's “city of gold” but also a failure of its post-apartheid government to provide for many of its poor Black majority