# Tourism minister Patricia de Lille has highlighted that passengers on Air Europa’s inaugural direct flight from Madrid to Gauteng have experienced the smart visitor information Centre at OR Tambo International Airport. She addressed the National Council of Provinces and emphasised the paperless platform showcases attractions across all nine provinces. De Lille says the initiative […]
# Spanish airline Air Europa has launched its first scheduled service into sub-Saharan Africa, introducing a direct route between Madrid and Gauteng, which touched down at OR Tambo International Airport this morning. The service which began last night will operate three times a week using a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Tourism minister Patricia de Lille says […]
# Union federation Cosatu calls on South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Namibia to review their revenue-sharing formula. South Africa will host the Southern Africa Customs Union’s summit of heads of state and government in Cape Town tomorrow. They will deliberate on key issues affecting regional economic integration, industrial development and trade cooperation. Cosatu’s Zanele […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed former National Treasury budget chief Michael Sachs as his new economic adviser. Sachs is expected to assume the role in the coming weeks, replacing former adviser Trudi Makhaya. The appointment comes as government intensifies efforts to boost economic growth and deepen reforms. Sachs previously headed the Treasury’s budget office […]
# Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, is ontevrede met die Stad Johannesburg se vorderingsverslag, en gaan die Tesourie opdrag gee om die oordrag van fondse na die metro te staak. Hy het in ʼn brief aan burgemeester Dada Morero gesê die stap volg nadat die metro ʼn onbefondsde begroting aanvaar het, en sy voortslepende […]
# Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana says he is dissatisfied with the progress reports from the City of Johannesburg, as he plans to instruct the National Treasury to stop the transfer of funds to the metro. In a letter to mayor Dada Morero, the minister says this step is necessitated by the metro adopting an […]
# Die ouditeur-generaal, Tsakani Maluleke, veroordeel die verslegtende finansiële toestand, ineenstorting van dienslewering, vervalle infrastruktuur en uiters swak gevolgebestuur in Gautengse munisipaliteite. Uit die provinsie se elf munisipaliteite het slegs Midvaal en Wes-Rand skoon oudits ontvang. Johannesburg se oudit het in die 2024/2025-boekjaar verswak van ʼn ongekwalifiseerde ouditmening tot ʼn gekwalifiseerde ouditmening. Dit volg nadat […]
# Auditor-General, Tsakani Maluleke, has condemned deteriorating financial health, collapsing service delivery, degrading infrastructure, and very poor consequence management in Gauteng municipalities. Out of the province’s eleven municipalities, only Midvaal and West Rand received clean audits. Johannesburg’s standalone audit regressed from an unqualified audit opinion to a qualified audit opinion in the 2024/2025 financial year, […]
# The Institute of Race Relations says South Africa’s mining sector is operating well below its potential and needs urgent reform to restore its contribution to the economy. According to the institute, mining’s share of gross domestic product has dropped from 21-percent in 1980 to about seven-percent, with thousands of jobs lost and falling investment […]
