# The Tax Justice South Africa is calling for stricter laws against illicit cigarette trafficking. This comes after a 56-year-old Limpopo cigarette trafficker was sentenced to 13 years in jail last week. Toni Nathaniel Gumbo was found with 36 master cases of Remington Gold cigarettes concealed inside boxes. The illicit haul carried an estimated street […]
# South Africa’s Monetary Policy Committee faces intense pressure ahead of Thursday’s interest rate decision. While consumers desperately hope for a rate cut to ease borrowing costs, stubborn global fuel shocks have driven annual consumer price inflation to four-percent. This sudden spike hits the absolute ceiling of the Reserve Bank’s tight target range. Independent economist […]
# Die Amerikaanse minister van Buitelandse Sake, Marco Rubio, sê ʼn vredesooreenkoms met Iran is nog in wording. President Donald Trump het onderhandelaars gevra om nie oorhaastig te wees nie. Die huidige raamwerk behels glo dat die skietstilstand met 60-dae verleng word, die Seestraat van Hormoes heropen word, en verdere onderhandeling oor Iran se kernprogram. […]
# Oil prices hit a two-week low today, plunging by over five-percent, fueled by growing optimism over a potential peace agreement between the US and Iran. Both countries signalled progress over the weekend in efforts to reach a deal, with the terms surrounding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran’s nuclear programme. In […]
# US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, says a US-Iranian peace deal is still a work in progress. President Donald Trump instructed negotiators over the weekend not to rush into a deal. The framework agreement under discussion reportedly includes a 60-day ceasefire extension, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and a plan for further negotiations over […]
# Die landbou-organisasie TLU SA het die aankoms verwelkom van die eerste besending van 3,5-miljoen dosisse van Argentinië se Biogénesis Bagó-entstof teen bek-en-klouseer. Dit is die grootste besending entstof teen die siekte wat deur Suid-Afrika ingevoer is. Bennie van Zyl van TLU SA sê die Departement van Landbou moet ‘n toewysingsverspreidingskomitee aanstel wat boere en […]
# The agriculture organisation TLU SA has welcomed the arrival of the first batch of a 3.5 million-dose consignment of Argentina’s Biogénesis Bagó foot and mouth disease vaccines. This is the largest single consignment of FMD vaccines ever imported into South Africa. TLU SA’s Bennie van Zyl says the Department of Agriculture must establish an […]
# Eskom sê die kragstelsel toon steeds verbeterde veerkragtigheid al kom die winter nader. Daar was tot dusver geen kragonderbrekings in die huidige boekjaar nie. Die woordvoerder, Daphne Mokwena, sê Eskom voeg vandag meer as drie-duisend megawatt opwekkingskapasiteit by die nasionale netwerk om bestendige kragvoorsiening te versterk voor die weeklikse piek-aanvraag-tye:
# Eskom says as winter season period approach, the power system continues to demonstrate improved resilience, with no power supply interruptions in the current financial year to date. The power entity spokesperson, Daphne Mokwena says Eskom returns over three-thousand-megawatts of generation capacity to the national grid today to strengthen stable electricity supply ahead of weekly peak […]
