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‘You can have retention strategies as much as you want to, but you have to create a positive practice environment for your nurses. No amount of money will retain somebody in a workplace if they are not happy,’ says Merle Victor, chief nurse officer at Life Healthcare.

Today, how caring for nurses can help strengthen economies. A look at why stokvel account deposits have surged 66%. Is the rapid rise of co-living spaces and micro-apartments a sign of innovation or a symptom of a broken economy? And a look at the latest unemployment figures.

‘What we are concerned about is that they're dipping into the savings pot, which is meant to be emergency money, and they're using it for spending,’ says Natasha Huggett-Henchie, member of the Actuarial Society of South Africa.

In a groundbreaking win for women’s rights, a union secures fully paid surrogacy leave for local government employees. Why an expert says government’s planned investment in air travel is optimistic, but shouldn’t be the finish line. And why the Transformation Fund should complement existing SME development efforts instead of crowding them out.

‘If you don't have proper human resource planning, you are not able to know exactly when you're going to start experiencing problems about mathematics teachers or science teachers,’ says Dr Mugwena Maluleke, general secretary of the South African Democratic Teachers Union.