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In the second quarter of 2025, unemployment edged up to 33.2% in the second quarter of 2025 from 32.9% in the previous quarter, while of the 10.1 million people aged 15 to 24, 35.2% were not in employment

We celebrate May Day and Freedom Day but SA’s working class is still unfree

About 32% of the population is unemployed; of the employed, 35.9% are in informal work; and of the formally employed, nearly 40% earn less than R3,500 a month

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Freedom is not something attained in 1994, it is road we are still building.

Freedom Day in a fractured nation: Who are we becoming?

Freedom is not about slogans or votes, it is something we must make together by our actions, in a country inured to violence and a world where self-interest rules.

4 min read
Sisters are doing it: Marumo Femme, made up of Kopano and Mamello Pule, will be at the Heroines of Jazz Concert in Pretoria.

What’s Up

Here are three cultural things to listen to or watch

  • Busi Lethole
4 min read