# National Treasury has identified four-thousand-323 high-risk or suspected ghost workers on the government payroll. The cases involve people whose identities or employment details could not be verified, as well as potentially fictitious or deceased individuals still receiving state salaries. Treasury is consolidating the findings of its investigations with the Department of Public Service and […]
# ActionSA sê die tydelike verligting op brandstof wat aangekondig is in die mini-begroting, is nie genoeg om huishoudings wat finansieel onder druk is by te staan nie. Die party verwelkom die bykomende 4,4-miljard-rand vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Inkomstediens om belastinginvordering te verbeter. ActionSA kritiseer die regering egter oor die verlaging van die ekonomiese groeivooruitsig na […]
# Die regering het 3,8-miljard rand oor die mediumtermyn toegewys om meer as drie-duisend-500 maatskaplike werkers aan te stel, ten einde die voorkoming van geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord te versterk. Die regering beplan om die aantal howe vir seksuele misdrywe teen 2028/2029 van 55 tot 101 te verhoog, en die aantal Thuthuzela-sorgsentrums van 72 tot 80. […]
# Government has allocated 3.8-billion-rand over the medium term to hire more than three-thousand-500 social workers to strengthen prevention of gender-based violence and femicide. The government plans to increase sexual offences courts from 55 to 101 and Thuthuzela Care Centres from 72 to 80 by 2028/2029. An additional 157.4-million-rand will go to the Department of […]
# National Treasury is planning the first comprehensive overhaul in 23 years of the law governing municipal finances. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says the changes will require municipalities to adopt properly funded budgets, improve revenue collection and strengthen accountability. The amendments will also give Treasury stronger powers to investigate financial misconduct, recover losses and intervene […]
# Mediaorganisasies het beswaar gemaak teen ‘n algehele verhoor agter geslote deure by die Madlanga-kommissie vir die waarnemende koördineerder van die Nasionale Intelligensie-koördineringskomitee, Ntandazo Sifolo. Die regsverteenwoordiger van Daily Maverick, Media24 en amaBhungane, Advokaat Ben Winks, voer aan geheimhouding moet beperk word slegs tot inligting wat werklik sensitief is. Hy stel voor vertroulike name, datums […]
# Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has announced temporary fuel levy cuts to ease pressure on households and businesses. The levy will be reduced by one-rand-50-cents a litre for petrol and three-rand a litre for diesel from the fourth of next month until the first of December. Godongwana says Treasury has increased its tax revenue forecast […]
# Pope Leo the Fourteenth has returned to St Peter’s Square in the Vatican, greeting pilgrims and blessing babies from his popemobile, eight days after surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from his right lung. The 71-year-old pontiff also held his first weekly general audience since the operation, thanking the crowds for their support and […]
# A shark that became a major attraction in the South Korean city of Busan has finally been guided out of the canal where she had been trapped for more than a month. Authorities succeeded in their third rescue attempt, using nets, floating platforms and divers to steer the three-metre female dusky shark, nicknamed Bukangi, […]
