# The South African rand was little changed against the dollar in this morning’s trade, as investors awaited July inflation data. The rand traded at 16-rand-25 to the dollar, close to its previous level. Statistics South Africa is expected to report annual inflation easing to 4.5-percent from five-percent in June. Economists attribute the expected moderation […]
# Die Parlement se staande komitee oor Finansies het herbevestig sy oorweging van die Wysigingswetsontwerp op Spesiale Pensioene sal gelei word deur betekenisvolle openbare deelname. Voorsitter Mkhacani Maswanganyi sê veterane van die bevrydingstryd en ander belanghebbendes se bekommernisse moet noukeurig beoordeel word. Hy sê dit fokus daarop of die bestaande Spesiale Pensioenraamwerk mense uitgesluit het […]
# Die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag sê die gaping tussen verwysings en vervolgings moet verstaan word teen die agtergrond van korrupsiesake se ingewikkeldheid. Die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid het sedert 2011 vyf-duisend-944 misdaadsake na die NVG verwys, maar slegs tien-persent het tot volledige dossiere en vervolgings gelei. In Gauteng was daar sedert 2011 twee-duisend-655 verwysings wat tot 206 dossiere […]
# Parliament’s standing committee on Finance reaffirmed its consideration of the Special Pensions Amendment Bill will be guided by meaningful public participation. Chairperson Mkhacani Maswanganyi says it will also have to carefully assess liberation struggle veterans and other stakeholders’ concerns. He says these centre on whether the existing Special Pensions framework was too restrictive and […]
# The National Prosecuting Authority says the gap between referrals and prosecutions must be understood against the complexity of corruption cases. The Special Investigating Unit had made five-thousand-944 criminal referrals to the NPA since 2011, but only ten-percent translated to dockets and prosecutions. Gauteng has accounted for two-thousand-655 referrals since 2011, resulting in 206 dockets. […]
# President Donald Trump van Amerika sê hy het die instelling van ʼn 50-persent tarief op ʼn wye reeks Kanadese produkte met drie dae uitgestel. Die tariewe op produkte soos suiwel, alkohol en meubels sou vandag van krag word. Trump sê op Truth Social Amerika en Kanada het ʼn ooreenkoms bereik, onderhewig aan die afhandeling […]
# US president Donald Trump says he has paused for three days the 50-percent tariff on a wide range of Canadian goods, which were scheduled to kick in today. The tariffs would have covered products including dairy, alcohol and furniture. In a post on Truth Social, Trump says the US and Canada have reached a […]
# Electricity and Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the new Electricity Pricing Policy will strengthen protections for poor and vulnerable consumers while making electricity bills more transparent. The minister says municipal and Eskom bills will be unbundled, showing consumers exactly how charges are calculated. Bills will itemise electricity generation, transmission and distribution costs, ancillary services […]
# DebtBusters says South African consumers remain under serious financial pressure, with people applying for debt counselling needing 64-percent of their take-home pay to service debt. Its latest index shows that consumers earning more than 50-thousand-rand a month need 103-percent of their income to cover debt repayments. The average applicant now has 8.7 credit agreements, […]
