# The Free Market Foundation is warning that domestic policy choices are undermining investor confidence. It highlights the Employment Equity Act and the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act as policies that are creating regulatory uncertainty and limiting business flexibility. The foundation says when businesses are subject to shifting policies, rigid compliance requirements, and expanding obligations, […]
# Municipal union SAMWU is calling on all municipal and water sector workers, their families, and the broader working class to actively participate in tomorrow’s Workers Day commemorations, organised by its federation, COSATU. SAMWU says it is honouring the memory of comrades who lost their lives in the tragic 2003 bus accident while travelling to Workers […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse premier se Koördineringsforum sê die provinsie maak goeie vordering met die beheer van bek-en-klouseer. Geen nuwe gevalle is in die afgelope 39 dae in die provinsie aangemeld nie. Dit dui daarop dat die uitbreking nou bestendig is. Altesaam 164-duisend-425 inentings is reeds op 756 plekke in die provinsie gedoen. Premier Alan Winde […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse premier se Koördineringsforum verwelkom die sterk gereedheidsvlak om enige moontlike onderbrekings in brandstofverskaffing te hanteer weens die voortgesette konflik in die Midde-Ooste. Die nasionale regering het die tydelike brandstofheffing- verligting tot Junie verleng om verbruikers te ondersteun te midde vam globale druk. Die Wes-Kaapse premier Alan Winde sê hoewel daar nog nie […]
# Oliepryse het weer die hoogte ingeskiet na berigte dat die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, oorweeg om die versperring van Iranse hawens te verleng. Brent-ruolie se prys het met byna sewe-persent geklim tot 126-dollar per vat – die hoogste sedert Rusland se inval in Oekraïne in 2022. Amerika beplan glo ʼn vlaag kort, kragtige aanvalle […]
# The Western Cape Premier’s Coordinating Forum has welcomed the strong state of readiness to respond to any potential disruptions to fuel supply linked to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The national government has extended the temporary fuel levy relief until June as a supportive measure for consumers during the ongoing global pressures. […]
# Oil prices have surged again following reports that US president Donald Trump is considering extending the blockade of Iranian ports. Brent crude has risen by almost seven-percent to 126 dollars a barrel, which is around two-thousand-129-rand, the highest level since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. According to reports, the US military has […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare loof die regering wat beslissend opgetree het om gewone Suid-Afrikaners te beskerm teen die ergste uitwerking van die stygende brandstofkoste. Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, het die tydelike brandstofheffing-verligting van drie-rand per liter vir petrol en 3,93-rand vir diesel tot 2 Junie verleng. Die vakbondwoordvoerder, Claude Naicker, sê die […]
# Die Voorsorgowerheid van Suid-Afrika sê Moody’s Investors Service South Africa sal nie langer as ʼn geskikte eksterne krediet-assesseringinstelling erken word nie. Die Finansiële Sektor Gedragsowerheid het Moody’s se registrasie in die land vroeër die maand gekanselleer nadat hy dit vrywillig opgegee het. Dit raak nie Suid-Afrika se soewereine gradering nie, omdat dit deur die […]