Sakhile Mhlongo, 55, spotted a gap at a Limpopo taxi rank that everyone else missed. Years later her four children all have jobs and she still does not work for anyone but herself.
Tonique McKenzie left her real estate job because she could not afford the transport to get there. Now she is unemployed, raising a five-year-old, and has R300 left at month end.
Government wants stronger protection for the Springboks and All Blacks tour, but Solidarity says the attached BEE rules give the state too much control.
The country's biggest retailer faces fresh scrutiny as the Human Rights Commission wraps up a week-long probe into why millions of South Africans still go to bed hungry.
Two secret police witnesses are fighting to hide their names before exposing how top prosecuting bosses allegedly protected a powerful crime intelligence boss from charges.
Two former Ekurhuleni city bosses return to court on Friday to fight for bail in a massive corruption case over stalled internal police misconduct charges.
Two suspended Ekurhuleni city bosses walked free on R50,000 bail on Thursday after prosecutors charged them with fraud and corruption over a stalled disciplinary process.
Zodwa Nkabinde earned R850 last month collecting recyclable waste in Thembisa. The Johannesburg household food basket costs R5,713, nearly seven times what she made.
A Gugulethu baker is offering 50 unemployed people six weeks of free baking training starting 20 July, with a certificate at the end and the skills to start their own business.
This week's Sharp Sharp finds Rob Rose and Zukile Majova, joined by Patrick Smith from Africa Confidential, digging into a pattern that runs right through South African politics. Old scandals do not disappear. They just get reassigned.
