# Die Monetêre Beleidskomitee verkeer onder ernstige druk voor Donderdag se rentekoersbesluit. Verbruikers hoop op ‘n verlaging om leenkoste te verlig, maar hardnekkige wêreldwye brandstofskokke het die jaarlikse verbruikersprysinflasie tot vier-persent verhoog. Hierdie skielike styging bereik die hoogste punt van die Reserwebank se streng teikenreeks. ‘n Onafhanklike ekonoom, John Loos, sê die veiligste benadering sou […]
# Oliepryse het vandag ‘n twee-weke laagtepunt bereik met ‘n daling van meer as vyf-persent, aangevuur deur groeiende optimisme oor ‘n moontlike vredesooreenkoms tussen Amerika en Iran. Die lande het die naweek vordering getoon in pogings om ‘n ooreenkoms te bereik, met gesprekke oor die heropening van die Seestraat van Hormoes en Teheran se kernprogram. […]
# The Tax Justice South Africa is calling for stricter laws against illicit cigarette trafficking. This comes after a 56-year-old Limpopo cigarette trafficker was sentenced to 13 years in jail last week. Toni Nathaniel Gumbo was found with 36 master cases of Remington Gold cigarettes concealed inside boxes. The illicit haul carried an estimated street […]
# South Africa’s Monetary Policy Committee faces intense pressure ahead of Thursday’s interest rate decision. While consumers desperately hope for a rate cut to ease borrowing costs, stubborn global fuel shocks have driven annual consumer price inflation to four-percent. This sudden spike hits the absolute ceiling of the Reserve Bank’s tight target range. Independent economist […]
# Die Amerikaanse minister van Buitelandse Sake, Marco Rubio, sê ʼn vredesooreenkoms met Iran is nog in wording. President Donald Trump het onderhandelaars gevra om nie oorhaastig te wees nie. Die huidige raamwerk behels glo dat die skietstilstand met 60-dae verleng word, die Seestraat van Hormoes heropen word, en verdere onderhandeling oor Iran se kernprogram. […]
# Oil prices hit a two-week low today, plunging by over five-percent, fueled by growing optimism over a potential peace agreement between the US and Iran. Both countries signalled progress over the weekend in efforts to reach a deal, with the terms surrounding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran’s nuclear programme. In […]
# US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, says a US-Iranian peace deal is still a work in progress. President Donald Trump instructed negotiators over the weekend not to rush into a deal. The framework agreement under discussion reportedly includes a 60-day ceasefire extension, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and a plan for further negotiations over […]
# Die landbou-organisasie TLU SA het die aankoms verwelkom van die eerste besending van 3,5-miljoen dosisse van Argentinië se Biogénesis Bagó-entstof teen bek-en-klouseer. Dit is die grootste besending entstof teen die siekte wat deur Suid-Afrika ingevoer is. Bennie van Zyl van TLU SA sê die Departement van Landbou moet ‘n toewysingsverspreidingskomitee aanstel wat boere en […]
# The agriculture organisation TLU SA has welcomed the arrival of the first batch of a 3.5 million-dose consignment of Argentina’s Biogénesis Bagó foot and mouth disease vaccines. This is the largest single consignment of FMD vaccines ever imported into South Africa. TLU SA’s Bennie van Zyl says the Department of Agriculture must establish an […]
