# Statistics South Africa says inflation has risen to a ten-month high of 3.5-percent in July, up from three-percent in June. Household food budgets remain under strain, with food and non-alcoholic beverage inflation accelerating to 5.7-percent. Beef prices have risen nearly 29-percent over the past year, while vegetable inflation reached 14.6-percent. Stats SA’s Patrick Kelly […]
# The Madlanga judicial commission of inquiry into criminality, political interference, and corruption in the criminal justice system will begin hearings on the first of next month. Chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga says the first session is expected to be open to the public and will take place at the Bridgette Mabandla Justice College in central […]
# The South African Rooibos Council is engaging the US embassy and the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition to seek relief from a newly imposed 30-percent tariff on Rooibos exports. Rooibos, grown only in the Western Cape, is mostly shipped in bulk to the US for blending, packaging, and marketing, creating jobs there. The […]
# The South African National Taxi Council says it will transport the body of e-hailing driver Siyanda Mthokozisi to KwaZulu-Natal for burial. Mthokozisi was shot outside Maponya Mall in Soweto, in Gauteng, last week, in what is suspected to be linked to tensions between e-hailing drivers and taxi operators. Santaco president Abnar Tsebe extended condolences […]
# The DA says Sandton residents are facing a serious water shortage while the G20 route for the November summit gets special attention. According to the party, many homes and businesses remain without water, yet officials rushed to inspect parts of Sandton along the G20 route for international optics. The DA’s Leah Potgieter urges the […]
# My Vote Counts warns that president Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent changes to the Political Funding Act increase secrecy and reduce accountability in political donations. Ramaphosa has doubled the annual donation limit to 30-million-rand and raised the disclosure threshold to 200-thousand-rand. The advocacy group’s Joel Bregman argues this will increase the influence of wealthy donors and […]
# The Public Servants Association condemns the North West parks and tourism board over a 300-percent rent hike for staff at Taung and Mafikeng hotel schools. The union states staff have been told their rent will jump from one-thousand-300-rand to six-thousand-800-rand a month from next month, along with salary deductions for electricity, without consultation. The […]
# The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse called on Tourism minister Patricia de Lille to support the South African Tourism board following the suspension of CEO Nombulelo Guliwe. The move follows forensic and Auditor-General reports highlighting governance breaches involving a four-million-rand payment to a service provider for the failed Dubai expo during the Covid-19 pandemic. OUTA […]
# The DA in Beaufort West in the Western Cape says it’s ready to restore stability and good governance in the municipality. The party will today elect a new speaker at a special council meeting after the former speaker, Jacob Jeffrey van der Linde, was removed for misconduct. The DA’s Gina Duimpies says the party […]
