Lolo Ndlovu has sent out hundreds of job applications from Kliptown. Mayor Dada Morero named Kliptown in his State of the City Address. She never heard a word of it.
Putco is raising fares by 10% from 1 June, the second increase this year, pushing one Soweto commuter's monthly transport bill to over R1,200 before he has bought a single thing.
Lerato Molapo earns R6,000 a month, pays R3,000 into two stokvels and cuts back on her children's winter clothes to keep up, because saving alone has never worked for her.
Zikhona Qothe sells fruit and vegetables in Gugulethu to feed eight people at home, but rising stock prices, fuel costs and unpaid credit have pushed her into a loss.
Rachel Kolisi checked into hospital this week and chose to handle it the way she handles most things: with a punchline and a photo from her hospital bed.
More than 7,800 jobs have opened up for local township families living near the new Tshwane automotive manufacturing zone built next to the Ford factory.
Police in the North West launched a manhunt after attackers shot and killed Mahikeng crime activist Thato Molosankwe at his Lomanyaneng home on Wednesday morning.