# The Western Cape government has opened applications for the next phase of the Growth Opportunity Coalitions Programme, funding industry-led partnerships from 2026 to 2029 to drive growth and jobs. Support includes industry coordination, competitiveness projects, market development, export promotion and investment mobilisation across sectors like manufacturing, clothing, green manufacturing, cosmetics, film and cannabis. MEC […]
# Social media giant Meta has been ordered to pay over 411-billion-rand for misleading users about its privacy practices. New Mexico’s lawsuit stemmed from allegations that political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, which was involved in Donald Trump’s 2016 US presidential campaign, obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent. Meta was also accused […]
# Standard Bank says the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement sends a positive signal on fiscal stability, infrastructure investment and increasing private-sector participation. Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana reaffirmed that public debt is now declining and pointed to an infrastructure pipeline of approximately 217-billion-rand through the Infrastructure Fund. The bank’s Umesh Madhav says the real measure […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus in Tshwane vra dringende veiligheidsmaatreëls op die Wonderboom-lughawe nadat veiligheidskontrakte verlede maand verval het. Die lughawe ondersteun meer as twee-duisend-500 mense, huisves tientalle lugvaartondernemings en hanteer elke jaar duisende vliegtuigbewegings. Willie Spies van die VF Plus sê dis onaanvaarbaar dat enige persoon in hierdie stadium deur die lughawe se infrastruktuur kan […]
# Action Society warns that allocations in the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement risk being lip service unless government publishes a costed implementation plan related to gender-based violence and femicide. In the budget, minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana committed an additional 5.1-billion-rand to combat GBVF in the country. Action Society’s Juanita du Preez says that while […]
# Die GOOD-party sê die tydelike brandstof-verligtingsmaatreëls wat die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, aangekondig het, is te laat om blywende verligting te bied. Hy het in sy mini-begrotings aangekondig dat die brandstofheffing van 4 November tot 1 Desember verlaag word met drie-rand per liter vir diesel en een-rand-50 sent per liter vir petrol. GOOD […]
# Die kommissaris van die Suid-Afrikaanse Inkomstediens, Johnstone Makhubu, sê volhoubare inkomste-groei hang uiteindelik af van ekonomiese groei, belegging, werkskepping en nakoming. Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, het in die Mini-begroting die geraamde inkomste aangepas van 2,14-duisend-miljard-rand in 2026/2027 tot 2,53-duisend-miljard-rand in 2029/2030. Makhubu sê hulle span kunsmatige-intelligensie-agente in om die res van die […]
# The GOOD Party says the temporary fuel relief measures announced by minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana come too late to provide lasting relief to South Africans. In the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, the minister announced that the fuel levy will be reduced by three-rand per litre for diesel and one-rand-50-cents per litre for petrol […]
# The Freedom Front Plus in Tshwane is calling for urgent security measures to be implemented at the Wonderboom Airport, following the lapse of security contracts last month. The airport supports more than two-thousand-500 people, accommodates dozens of aviation businesses and facilitates thousands of aircraft movements each year. FF Plus’s Willie Spies says that, at present, […]
