# Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero has established a disciplinary board to investigate financial misconduct and unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. Earlier this month, Finance minister Enoch Godongwana threatened to withdraw funding from the metro if the mayor did not come up with a comprehensive plan to address unauthorised expenditure and enforce consequence management. In […]
# Sakeliga en die Nasionale Werkgewersvereniging van Suid-Afrika sal vandag in die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria verskyn om die nuwe kwotas vir gelyke indiensneming te betwis. Die organisasies voer aan die ras- en geslagsgebaseerde kwotas, wat volgende maand in werking sal tree, is sonder behoorlike raadpleging ingestel, sal duur wees en moeilik vir ondernemings om om […]
# AfriForum het die terugbetaling aan inwoners van die onwettige skoonmaakheffing deur die Tshwane Metro verwelkom. Die kreditering volg na ‘n Hooggeregshofbeslissing dat die heffing onwettig en ongeldig is. Arno Roodt van AfriForum sê krediete word aan inwoners gestuur, en spaar die stad meer as 58-miljoen-rand. Roodt warsku die metro dat enige appél belastingbetalers se […]
# Die Buro vir Voedsel- en Landboubeleid se Basiese Landbouvooruitsigte vir 2025 tot 2034 wys dat Suid-Afrika se landbousektor oor die laaste twee dekades beter vertoon het as die land se breër ekonomie. Volgens die buro se direkteur, Tracy Davids, word dit hoofsaaklik aangedryf deur hoë-waarde, uitvoergedrewe kommoditeite. Davids sê stagnerende binnelandse inkomste maak uitvoere […]
# Die Internasionale Lugvervoervereniging het bevestig dat hy sy derde Wêreldvolhoubaarheidsimposium hierdie Oktober in Hongkong gaan aanbied en daarop sal fokus om teen 2050 netto-nul koolstofuitstralings in lugvaart te bereik. Die geleentheid sal wêreldleiers in finansies, energie, beleid en lugvaart verenig om uitdagings aan te pak, insluitend volhoubare brandstofproduksie, om die oorgang na 82-duisend-miljard-rand te […]
# AfriForum has welcomed the Tshwane Metro’s crediting of the city cleansing levy, following a High Court ruling declaring it unlawful and invalid. AfriForum’s Arno Roodt says residents’ accounts are being credited, saving over 58-million-rand citywide. Roodt warns the metro that any appeal would waste taxpayers’ money and vows to challenge it. He hails the […]
# Sakeliga and the National Employers’ Association of South Africa will appear in the High Court in Pretoria today to challenge the new employment equity quotas. The organisations argue that the race and gender-based quotas, set to begin next month, were introduced without proper consultation and will be costly and difficult for businesses to implement. […]
# The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy’s Baseline Agricultural Outlook 2025 to 2034 has revealed that South Africa’s agricultural sector outperformed the wider economy over the past two decades. According to the Bureau’s director, Tracy Davids, this is driven largely by high-value, export-led commodities. Davids says stagnant domestic incomes make exports vital despite global […]
# The International Air Transport Association has confirmed that it will host its third World Sustainability Symposium in Hong Kong this October, focusing on achieving net-zero carbon emissions in aviation by 2050. The event will unite global leaders from finance, energy, policy, and aviation to tackle challenges including sustainable fuel production, funding the 82-trillion-rand transition, […]
