# Parliament’s standing committee on Finance chairperson, Joe Maswanganyi, has warned against the promotion of populist agendas, including opposition to tax policy. This comes as some political parties have rejected the fuel levy increase announced by Finance minister Enoch Godongwana in his amended budget this week. The fuel levy increase is to fund the budget […]
# The US Department of Homeland Security has revoked Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Programme certification, meaning it cannot enroll international students. Existing international students at the university have been ordered to transfer or lose their legal status. The Trump administration has for months demanded that Harvard change its hiring, admissions and teaching practices […]
# Soccer: Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has named a 41-member preliminary squad for next month’s international friendlies against Tanzania and an as-yet-unnamed second opponent. Broos has called up several new faces, including Orlando Pirates sensation Mbekezeli Mbokazi, his teammate Simphiwe Selepe, and Kaizer Chiefs youngster Mduduzi Shabalala. The matches will serve as crucial preparation […]
# The United Nations World Food Programme has warned that it’s in a race against time to prevent widespread starvation in Gaza. More than 90 lorry loads of humanitarian aid have been collected by UN teams inside the Gaza Strip, days after Israel eased an eleven-week-long blockade. The WFP’s deputy executive director, Carl Skau, told […]
# Rugby: Former New Zealand captain, Sam Cane, and Ireland greats, Peter O’Mahony and Conor Murray, have been revealed as the first players included in the Barbarians squad to play South Africa in Cape Town next month. The trio, who have 352 international caps to their name, will be representing the Barbarians for the first […]
# The EFF says it rejects the Economic Regulation of Transport Amendment Act in its current form. The act seeks to promote economic growth and the welfare of South Africans by promoting an effective and productive transport sector. That includes establishing a Transport Economic Regulator responsible for regulating prices in the transport sector, investigating complaints, […]
# US Attorney General Pam Bondi says, from everything known to authorities, the suspect arrested in connection with the shooting of Israeli Embassy staffers acted alone. Two Israeli embassy staff, Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, were shot dead while leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington. Police have identified the suspect as […]
# Finance minister Enoch Godongwana says he is beginning to win the battle within the cabinet to support fiscal consolidation. Consolidated government expenditures in the minister’s amended budget have gone down from 2.60-trillion to 2.58-trillion-rand. Godongwana says the government is spending 1.2-billion-rand servicing debt. He says fiscal consolidation is a difficult exercise that requires the […]
# Giwusa sê president Cyril Ramaphosa het die nasionale vryheidstryd verraai en gunste gevra by sy Amerikaanse ampsgenoot, Donald Trump, wat volgens die vakbond ʼn rassistiese imperialis is. Ramaphosa en Trump het gister in die Withuis vergader om verhoudinge tussen die twee lande te herstel. Giwusa se president, Mametlwe Sebei, sê die ontmoeting was nie […]
