Government has set aside hundreds of millions for township businesses, but 67% of small business funding applications in South Africa are rejected or go unfunded.

President Cyril Ramaphosa fired social development minister Sisisi Tolashe on Thursday after months of scandals, including claims she used a state worker as a private nanny.

Former president Jacob Zuma says illegal foreign nationals bribed locals to burn March and March activist Ngizwe Mchunu's home.

While maize meal and rice prices have fallen over the past year, protein costs are rising and three in ten South African boys under five are stunted.

MKP legislator Musa Mkhize received death threats before KwaZulu-Natal's no-confidence vote against Premier Ntuli. He reported them to the Speaker and claims she did nothing.

Small technology businesses in South Africa are struggling to survive because customers pay late while suppliers demand money upfront for monthly software and cloud services.

Boity Thulo opened her R4.2-million Centurion mansion to Top Billing four days after a finance company asked the Johannesburg High Court to sell it.

Sports minister Gayton McKenzie is fighting massive money problems as investigators look into a half built swimming pool and an eighty five million rand golf shortfall.

A 29-year-old Soweto graduate who finished university cum laude died by suicide after years of job rejections left him battling depression.

Zulu royal chancellor Inkosi Malusi Zondi has shut down reports that he took an R8.5-million protection fee for a delayed provincial water supply project.

A Khayelitsha hawker who feeds six family members and employs four people says a cashless payment system coming to the Site C taxi rank on 1 June will destroy everything she has built.

Two sisters from Lesotho are selling cow heads and pap on the streets of Gauteng to support their families, but rising meat prices and struggling customers are making it harder to survive every month.