# A legal expert says there are concerns that social security agency SASSA’s automated verification system for the Social Relief of Distress Grant is wrongly rejecting applicants. The fully automated application process only allows online applications and uses an automated verification system in which funds in a person’s bank account are a decisive determinant of […]
# Amerika se hoër as verwagte inflasiekoers en Brent-ruolie wat ver bo 100-dollar rand per vat verkoop, gaan ʼn onregstreekse uitwerking op Suid-Afrika hê. Dit is volgens KPMG South Africa se hoofekonoom, Frank Blackmore. Hy sê die voortslepende konflik in die Midde-Ooste en die sluiting van die Seestraat van Hormoes sal met verloop van tyd […]
# The US’ recent inflation rates coming in higher than expected, and Brent crude sitting at way over 100-dollar a barrel, will indirectly filter through to South Africa. This is according to KPMG South Africa’s lead economist, Frank Blackmore. He says the persistent conflict in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of […]
# Eerste minister Mark Carney sê Kanada wil ʼn uitsonderlike ekonomiese en veiligheidsalliansie met die Europese Unie aangaan. Ottawa wil sy ekonomiese afhanklikheid van die Verenigde State verminder nadat die handelsoorlog tussen dié twee lande die afgelope maand verskerp het. Sedert handelsgesprekke verlede maand skielik ineengestort het, probeer die twee lande mekaar, wat tariewe betref, […]
# Prime minister Mark Carney says Canada is pursuing a unique security and economic alliance with the European Union. This as Ottawa is seeking to reduce its economic dependence on the US, as the trade war between the two countries has deepened over the last month. After trade talks suddenly collapsed last month, the two […]
# Die regering het ʼn leningsooreenkoms van 16,2-miljard-rand by die New Development Bank onderteken om infrastruktuur vir die Metropolitaanse Munisipale Dienste op te knap. Dit is deel van die Metro-handelsdienste-hervormingsprogram om die bestuur, finansiële volhoubaarheid en bedryfsprestasie van munisipale handelsdienste in metropolitaanse munisipaliteite te verbeter, veral wat water en sanitasie, elektrisiteit en energie, en vaste-afvalbestuur […]
# Government has signed a 16.2-billion-rand loan agreement with the New Development Bank to upgrade infrastructure for the Metropolitan Municipal Services. This is part of the Metro Trading Services Reform Programme, aimed at improving the governance, financial sustainability and operational performance of municipal trading services in metropolitan municipalities, particularly in water and sanitation, electricity and […]
# Electricity and Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says South Africa must distinguish ambition from actual implementation in its green hydrogen programme. Addressing the Africa Green Hydrogen Summit in Cape Town, Ramokgopa stressed that priority status does not mean a project is under construction. He says inclusion in the National Green Hydrogen Deal Book is not […]
# Trade union Solidarity has filed a complaint with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Washington, DC, against Amazon Web Services over a business development programme that requires applicants to be 100-percent black-owned. Solidarity’s Dirk Hermann says the requirement unfairly excludes businesses with any white ownership and goes beyond what South African law […]
