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Gender-based violence: a woeful Women’s Month

Gender-based violence: a woeful Women’s Month

KATHERINE ATKINSON Women’s Month in South Africa is meant to commemorate and empower women. However, these ideals seem a distant reality from Women’s Month 2017 as the country was reminded of the increased cases of gender-based violence. On 6 August Deputy Minister of...

Update on employment in South Africa

Update on employment in South Africa

KATHERINE ATKINSON South Africa’s unemployment rate has remained at 27.7% for the second quarter of 2017. This is an increase compared to the second quarter of last year’s unemployment rate of 26.6%. This is also the highest unemployment rate South Africa has seen...

South Africa’s poaching problem

South Africa’s poaching problem

GEMMA GATTICCHI Animal poaching is the illegal killing of an animal, usually because the animal possesses something of value for humans. In recent years this practice has become a major threat to the survival of South African wildlife and tourism. South Africa has the...

Tourism – a thriving industry in an ailing economy

Tourism – a thriving industry in an ailing economy

DITEBOGO TSHAKA A tourism and migration report from Stats SA said that “tourists increased by 2.5% from 691 414 in June 2016.” The WorldTravel and Tourism Council (WTTC) reported that travel andtourism contributed R402 billion to the South African economyin 2016 (9.3%...

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