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The ANC under Cyril Ramaphosa is attempting to forge a new government of national unity. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Will the ANC’s government of national unity 2.0 drive change?

The coalition faces the task of implementing long-promised transformations while managing political contradictions

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
Working together, governments, the private sector and regional bodies can solve the infrastructure problems hobbing the growth of the mining sector in Africa. Photo by Emmanuel Croset/AFP

30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY: SA’s economy neither Gear nor there

Amid directionless policy after 30 years of democracy, the country’s prospects continue to be driven by the whims of miners and their financiers

  • Des Erasmus
7 min read
Damelin is one of four colleges that has been deregistered by the department of education.

College closures and the pitfalls of privatisation

As austerity batters public universities, fly by night institutions leave students in the lurch

  • Des Erasmus
4 min read
Unemployed men inJohannesburg wait on a street corner for work for part-time work. Photo: Naashon Zalk/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Fiscal Cliff | Shallow state purse deepens jobs crisis

In this instalment of The Fiscal Cliff – a Mail & Guardian series on how South Africa’s budget has been shaped – Sarah Smit considers the intimate link between the country’s ultra-high unemployment rate and austerity

  • Eyaaz
8 min read

Department of Finance

The journey to full-blown austerity is marked by changes to an economy presided over by a government adrift

  • M&G Digital
10 min read