# The owner of social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp, Meta has started its latest round of layoffs this week, cutting ten-percent of its workforce, roughly eight-thousand staff. Workers affected so far include those in cybersecurity, integrity, and content design. Meta says the job cuts are all part of its continued effort for […]
# The Forum for South Africa has expressed concern at public transport operator Putco’s latest fare increase. Putco will increase bus fares by an average of ten-percent from the first of June, fuelled by record-high diesel costs. FOSA leader, Tebogo Mashilompane, says every increase in fares pushes thousands of commuters closer to economic exclusion:
# Union federation Cosatu says it is concerning that the Unemployment Insurance Fund has not shut down its old website. This has resulted in thousands of unemployed South Africans sending their UIF claims through an outdated online system. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Zanele Sabela, says the old platform remains live and gives no indication that it is […]
# Die vakbond GIWUSA vra die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank se Monetêre Beleidskomitee om volgende week die rentekoers te verlaag, al toon Statistiek Suid-Afrika se jongste inflasiesyfers dit het verlede maand van 3,1- tot vier-persent verhoog. GIWUSA se president, Mametlwe Sebei, sê brandstofprys-skokke het die energie-deel van inflasie baie hoër laat styg en daarom is prysbeheer nodig:
# General Industries Workers Union of South Africa is urging the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to cut the interest rate next week. This comes as the latest inflation figures from Statistics South Africa have come in at the upper limit of the one-percentage-point tolerance band of SARB’s new three-percent inflation target. GIWUSA […]
# Eskom voer verkennende gesprekke met die Wêreldbank oor die befondsing van ‘n multimiljard-dollar kernprogram. Die Koeberg Kernkragstasie naby Kaapstad is Afrika se enigese werkende kernkragstasie. Die kragverskaffer stel voor vier-duisend-800 megawatt van konvensionele waterdruk-reaktors en 400 megawatt van klein modulêre reaktors. Ten minste die helfte van die klein modulêre reaktors sal bestem wees vir […]
# Eskom is in exploratory talks with the World Bank over funding for a multibillion-dollar nuclear programme. Koeberg Nuclear Power Station near Cape Town is Africa’s only operational nuclear power station. The power utility is proposing four-thousand-800 megawatts from conventional pressurised water reactors and 400 megawatts from small modular reactors. At least half of the small modular reactors’ capacity will […]
# Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, voer aan hy is geregtig om die brandstofheffing na sy goeddunke en in openbare belang aan te pas, soos die Doeane- en Aksynswet bepaal. Die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof het uitspraak voorbehou in die EFF se aansoek waarin hy die minister van Finansies se gesag om die brandstofheffing te bepaal […]
# Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has argued that he is entitled to adjust the fuel levy as he sees fit and in the public interest, as stated in the Customs and Excise Act. The Western Cape High Court has reserved judgment in the EFF’s application, challenging the Finance minister’s authority to determine and adjust the […]
