# International Relations and Cooperation minister, Ronald Lamola, has unveiled South Africa’s ambitious G20 roadmap ahead of the November summit, focusing on artificial intelligence, food security, and inequality. Lamola told the media the Presidency is pushing for reforms in global financial and trade systems, stronger climate finance, and support for gender equality. He also called […]
# Africa’s Travel Indaba 2025 has commenced at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre in Durban. The four-day event features over one-thousand-300 exhibitors from 27 African countries and over one-thousand-200 international buyers. The indaba coincides with the second G20 Tourism Working Group Meeting. Tourism minister Patricia de Lille emphasised the theme Unlimited Africa, highlights the […]
# The second G20 Tourism Working Group is positioning the country’s tourism sector on the global stage in Durban. Delegates are focusing on four priorities including people-centered AI to boost tourism startups and SMMEs, financing for equality, air connectivity, and resilience in tourism development. Tourism minister Patricia de Lille says the initiative aims to attract […]
# Build One South Africa vra volle deursigtigheid ná die onthulling dat Gold Rush Consortium die voorkeurbieër is vir die kontrak van miljarde-rand om Suid-Afrika se nasionale lotery te bedryf. Woordvoerder Roger Solomons sê dit volg op die party se aansoek ingevolge die Wet op die Bevordering van Toegang tot Inligting om die name van […]
# AfriForum het formeel beswaar gemaak teen die Departement van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging se voorgestelde Transformasiefonds van 100-miljard-rand. Die organisasie het kritiek gelewer op die fonds se rasgebaseerde kriteria en befondsingsmodel. Woordvoerder Ernst van Zyl voer aan dat die plan, wat vereis dat besighede drie-persent van hul netto wins ná belasting bykomend moet bydra, […]
# BOSA is calling for full transparency following the revelation that Gold Rush Consortium is the preferred bidder for the multi-billion-rand contract to operate South Africa’s national lottery. Spokesperson Roger Solomons says this follows the party’s submission of a Promotion of Access to Information Act application to obtain the names of the members of the […]
# Die Verenigde State en China het ooreengekom om hul omstrede tariewe tydelik te sny, met die VSA se koers wat tot 30-persent verlaag word en Chinese tariewe, tot 10-persent. Die Amerikaanse minister van Finansies, Scott Bessent en die Handelsverteenwoordiger, Jamieson Greer, het ná handelsgesprekke in Genève hierdie naweek, aan verslaggewers gesê die partye het […]
# Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, het gewaarsku teen die implementering van ’n welvaartbelasting en gesê Suid-Afrika kan sewe miljard rand in jaarlikse inkomstebelasting verloor. Godongwana sê ongeveer twee-duisend-850 individue met ’n hoë netto waarde, wat elk oor meer as vyftig miljoen rand in bates beskik, dra aansienlik by tot die land se inkomste. […]
# The United States and China have agreed to temporarily slash their tit-for-tat tariffs, with the US rate down to 30-percent and Chinese duties cut to to 10-percent. Following a weekend of trade talks in Geneva, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters the sides had agreed to temporarily roll […]
