HeyJaredKenneth Diole
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KENNETH DIOLE | How municipal decay is ruining local economies (opens the original)
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The upcoming local government elections must not be viewed merely as another routine political event but as a critical opportunity to rehabilitate our collapsing towns and cities while fortifying our democratic architecture. Across South Africa, many urban and rural centres have degenerated into hollowed-out versions of their former selves. The visual hallmarks of this decay are ubiquitous: cavernous potholes that seem to amuse politicians rather than shame them, non-functioning traffic lights w
KENNETH DIOLE | Have we lost empathy for the unemployed? (opens the original)
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Statistics South Africa recently released the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey, revealing the official unemployment rate climbed by 0.9 percentage points to 33.6% in the second quarter of 2026. This means an additional 345,000 people joined the ranks of the jobless in only three months. In the Eastern Cape and North West, a grim threshold has been crossed: there are now more people out of work than those who are employed. Their expanded unemployment rates sit at a catastrophic 54% and 56%, r
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