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Revealed: SA’s toddler boomtowns
JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and ATHANDIWE SABA SOUTH Africa’s exploding population has given birth to toddler boomtowns – and the most booming of them all is a South African border town. Musina, near the Zimbabwean border, has seen the biggest rise in children aged four and under over the past 10 years, official census data… Read More »
R12 or every R100 in economy goes to pay civil servants
JEANNE VAN DER MERWE investigations@media24.com NEARLY R12 of every R100 generated by the South African economy is spent on paying for civil servants – nearly three times as much as Brazil. In the past financial year, our bureaucrats were responsible for costing more than 11% of SA’s gross domestic product, making the SA civil service… Read More »
