# FNB’s new online toll payment solution has reduced toll road fraud by over 90-percent. FNB product and solutions head, Netsai Ngidi, told Engineering News that the system uses chip card technology for real-time, secure payments, eliminating swipe fraud risks. Ngidi emphasised that traditional methods were prone to abuse and cloning, highlighting the tech’s ability […]
# The Trade, Industry and Competition Department has emphasised the importance of Africa manufacturing its own medicines. Speaking at the G20 high-level ministerial dialogue, the department’s chief director of Industrial Procurement, Tebogo Makube, highlighted strengthening regional value chains within the African market by removing trade barriers as health expenditure has been externalised for long:
# Transnet se grootste vakbond, die United National Transport Union, dreig om te staak nadat loononderhandelinge by die Kommissie vir Versoening, Bemiddeling en Arbitrasie Maandag misluk het. Untu verwerp Transnet se onveranderde aanbod van ʼn ses-persent-verhoging in die eerste twee jaar wat op 1 April begin, en 5,5-persent in die derde jaar. Die vakbond eis […]
# Transnet’s biggest union, the United National Transport Union, has threatened to strike after wage talks collapsed at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration on Monday. Untu rejects Transnet’s unchanged offer for a wage increase of six-percent annually in the first two years starting April 1st, and 5.5-percent in the third year. The union […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies se Handels- en Ontwikkelingsagentskap waarsku stygende wêreldtariewe kan die wêreld se armste ekonomieë verwoes. ‘n Nuwe verslag bepleit dat die armste lande vrygestel word van voorgestelde Amerikaanse tariewe, wat 57 handelsvennote teiken. Die agentskap sê hoewel hierdie lande se bydra tot Amerikaanse tekorte minimaal is, kan die tariewe, as dit ná […]
# The United Nations Trade and Development agency has raised red flags over rising global tariffs, warning they could devastate the world’s poorest economies. A new UNCTAD report urges exemption for least developed countries from proposed US reciprocal tariffs targeting 57 trade partners. The agency says while these nations contribute minimally to US deficits, the […]
# Die Forum vir Suid-Afrika het teleurstelling uitgespreek oor president Cyril Ramaphosa se aanstelling van Mcebisi Jonas, die voormalige adjunkminister van Finansies as spesiale gesant na die VSA. Die forum sê dit dui op Ramaphosa se gebrek aan belangstelling om die verslegtende verhouding tussen die twee lande reg te stel. Hoewel hy Jonas se integriteit […]
# The Forum for South Africa has expressed disappointment with president Cyril Ramaphosa’s appointment of former deputy Finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as special envoy to the US. They believe this move signals Ramaphosa’s lack of interest in fixing the deteriorating relationship between the two countries. While respecting Jonas’ integrity, the forum’s Tebogo Mashilompane argues that […]
# Eskom en Exxaro het saamgespan om klimaatsverandering te beveg en besoedeling te verminder. Hulle het ‘n nuwe ooreenkoms onderteken om koolstofvrystellings te verminder, luggehalte te verbeter en ‘n regverdige oorgang na skoner energie te ondersteun. Die plan sluit in die gebruik van nuwe groen tegnologie, die skep van werkgeleenthede en die opleiding van werkers […]
