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Thandiwe Nkosi

Thandiwe Nkosi is the Society Editor and covers communities, schools, clinics and the cost of living, which is where the country's decisions are actually paid for.

Cape Town car community takes to the road with purple flags against gender-based violence

Organisers say the car community is around 70% male-driven, and they want that reach turned towards the campaign against gender-based violence.

Thandiwe Nkosi ·
Society

Durban's scrapyard owners count the cost as arson and looting hit the CBD

Traders and residents in Durban's central business district are counting losses after vehicles were torched, buildings set alight and shops looted during protests against undocumented immigration.

More from Thandiwe Nkosi
  1. 01 NEWS BRIEF Manamela sets universities a double AI task, and only half of it is theirs to control Society ·
  2. 02 Sibiya stays in custody as court postpones bail to 13 October Society ·
  3. 03 SASSA warns a late bank change can push your grant into the next payment cycle Society ·
  4. 04 A Western Cape pensioner wants her R2 400 grant doubled. Her argument is tax. Society ·
  5. 05 Fuel price spikes push up food and transport costs, and the Reserve Bank has already responded Society ·

Earlier from Thandiwe Nkosi

Society

Eniwe High School pupils mark Peace Day with meditation and yoga programme
Society

NSFAS opens 2027 applications as Manamela faces governance questions
Society

Qumrha clinic patients wait hours as Eastern Cape health pressure mounts
Society

A carer's R2 400 question: SASSA pensioners pay rent first and eat last
Society

SASSA's own half-year numbers show pensioners carry the brunt of grant reviews
Society

Pensioner told to come back a fourth time as Pule hears grant deduction complaints in Delft
Society

A Free State pensioner's grant arrives on time every month, and still runs out before the food does
Society

KwaThema men walk against gender-based violence after nine women are found killed in Ekurhuleni
Society

KwaThema women say they cannot report abuse in a police station with no privacy
Society

Justice week closes in Bushbuckridge as small claims courts can now hear R30,000 cases
Society

A Gauteng mother on R580 a month says the grant covers part of her household, not all of it
Society

Bitter-apple, wild dagga and blue lily: CUT scientist flags organ risk in popular remedies
NEWS BRIEF Society

Mdantsane matrics get alcohol warning as Eastern Cape liquor data shows 47% have drunk
Society

Sugar tariff rises to $785 a tonne as Tshwane prepaid meter fines reach R75,000
Society

Cape Town opens 40 pools daily for the school holidays as five stay shut
Society

Child support stays at R580 as October payout lands on 6 October
Society

Tshwane prepaid meter fines hit R75,000 as 2,339 meters found bypassed
Society

Beneva's first school turns 100 with the man who built it
Society

Schools close 23 September as matrics get 13 days before finals run
Society

Home Affairs opens 372-branch Smart ID locator as bank network grows
Society

Appeal court lets Information Regulator fight on over matric results in newspapers
Society

SASSA old age grant of R2 400 has to stretch to five people, KwaZulu-Natal pensioner says
Society

SASSA rolls out free Wi-Fi and kiosks to cut grant office queues

Thandiwe Nkosi files to the Society section. The other editors are in The Editors' Room.