# Eskom says it notes the Supreme Court of Appeal ruling, setting aside the Environmental Authorisation granted for the proposed three-thousand-megawatt Combined Cycle Gas Power Plant in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal. The court stated that there was inadequate public participation, and no consultation was conducted with vulnerable communities. It also cited a failure to assess renewable […]
# Die Kabinet het die vrystelling van die konsep Nasionale Entrepreneurskapstrategie en Implementeringsplan vir openbare kommentaar goedgekeur. Die minister in die Presidensie, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, sê die strategie fokus op die bevordering van die jeug en voorheen-benadeelde ondernemings, deur mikro-, klein- en mediumgrootte ondernemings te versterk. Die plan sluit entrepreneurskapsonderwys, tegnologie-uitruiling, toegang tot befondsing en markte, […]
# Die organisasie teen belastingmisbruik het regstappe ingestel om die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Padagentskap se e-tol-skuldinvordering te beëindig. OUTA vra die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria om te beslis dat meer as twee-duisend e-tol-eise geskrap moet word na die opskorting van invorderings in 2019. Sanral het ’n kennisgewing ingedien om die aansoek teen te staan, maar geen hofdatum […]
# Donald Trump het Amerika se “onbreekbare band” met Brittanje geprys toe hy en eerste minister Keir Starmer ‘n reuse- tegnologie-ooreenkoms onderteken het op die tweede dag van die Amerikaanse president se staatsbesoek. Trump het ‘n dag nadat koning Charles hom met koninklike prag en praal by Windsor-kasteel trakteer het, na Starmer se Chequers-landgoed gevlieg […]
# Die DA sê die toerismesektor het alle vertroue in die minister van Toerisme, Patricia de Lille, verloor. Dit volg ná die Toerisme-sakeraad se besluit om 500-miljoen-rand in heffings terug te hou, oor wat hy noem ‘n verlies aan vertroue in beide die minister en die SA Toerismeraad. Die DA-lid, Haseena Ismail, sê die krisis […]
# Cabinet has approved the release of the draft National Entrepreneurship Strategy and Implementation Plan for public comment. Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, says the strategy focuses on promoting youth and historically disadvantaged businesses by strengthening Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises. It outlines entrepreneurship education, technology exchange, access to finance and markets, regulatory reform, […]
# The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has launched legal action to end the South African National Roads Agency’s e-toll debt collection. The organisation has asked the High Court in Pretoria to declare that more than two-thousand e-toll claims should be scrapped, following the suspension of collections in 2019. Sanral has filed notice to oppose the […]
# The DA says the tourism sector has lost all confidence in Tourism minister Patricia de Lille. This follows the Tourism Business Council’s decision to withhold 500-million-rand in levies, citing a loss of trust in both the minister and the SA Tourism Board. The DA’s Haseena Ismail says the crisis stems from De Lille’s reckless […]
# Donald Trump hailed America’s “unbreakable bond” with Britain as he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a huge tech deal on the second day of the US president’s pomp-filled state visit. A day after King Charles treated Trump to a day of royal pageantry at Windsor Castle, Trump flew to Starmer’s Chequers country residence […]
