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Anna Majavu’s Biography

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Email: annamajavu@gmail.com
Phone/WhatsApp +27 78 6196623

Journalist: land, labour, climate change, Just Transition, urban agriculture, ecology, SMMEs, science and politics.

Journalism lecturer: Rhodes University 2023 - Journalism and Social Change (Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism class)
Rhodes University 2022 - Digital self-representation (Journalism and Media Studies 3rd year class)

MPhil in Journalism (A phenomenological study of convergence on Sowetan newspaper between 2008 and 2012).

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Anna Majavu’s Journalist Portfolio

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Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics

Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics

As freshwater "Day Zero" looms for the climate change-stressed Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, …

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Urban gardens one solution to corruption and hunger

Urban gardens one solution to corruption and hunger

Urban agriculture is one way for people to overcome their utter disappointment in the government and become m…

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SA's children are hungry for mass-based support | Citypress

SA's children are hungry for mass-based support | Citypress

A new campaign against child starvation will hold public hearings into children affected by malnutrition and …

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The daily grind of pineapple farm workers

The daily grind of pineapple farm workers

The British army decided in 1809 to "expel" by force all amaXhosa living in Zuurveld, the 19th-century name f…

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ANC family tries to run black farmers off their land

ANC family tries to run black farmers off their land

Lulama Kapa, 66, and his wife Nothandekile, 63, are emerging black farmers. But their success is precarious a…

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South Africa's rooibos farmers go wild to take on commercial growers

South Africa's rooibos farmers go wild to take on commercial growers

When rooibos, South Africa's naturally caffeine-free tea, made the jump from health food store to supermarket…

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Biggest concerns for South African SMMEs

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| Vutivi Business News
By: Anna Majavu High interest and inflation rates, a lack of funding, and a heavy tax burden are among the biggest problems facing South African SMMEs, new research has found. Ayanda Sibiya, Johan van der Westhuizen, and Bongani Sibiya of the Vaal University of Technology wrote this month in the African Journal of Inter/Multidisciplinary Studies that SMMEs needed more funding options.
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Additional funding available for some small businesses

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| Vutivi Business News
By: Anna Majavu Innovative small businesses that use local materials to design furniture and other useful products can apply for two new grants and low-interest loans from the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and the National Empowerment Fund (NEF). The TIA, based in the Department of Science and Innovation, has announced a second round of funding for “grassroots innovators” who invent products that solve a South African problem.
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No changes for black SMMEs on export permits

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| Vutivi Business News
By: Anna Majavu The playing field has not yet been levelled for black-owned SMMEs who export agricultural products to the European Union and the United Kingdom duty-free. South Africa has trade agreements with the EU and the UK that allow certain agricultural products to enter these countries at reduced or no duties or partially duty-free rates under preferential Tariff Rate Quotas.
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