# Volkswagen, Europa se grootste motorvervaardiger, oorweeg dit om ‘n monteeraanleg in Egipte te vestig. Die besturende direkteur vir die VW-groep in Afrika, Martina Biene, het aan Engineering News gesê dit is deel van ‘n plan om nuwe Afrika-markte te ontgin terwyl die aanvraag in Europa afneem. Volkswagen kan wel ‘n monteeraanleg vestig deur bestaande […]
# Build One South Africa urges president Cyril Ramaphosa to adopt its growth charter as the economy remains stagnant under the government of national unity. This comes as Statistics South Africa reports just 0.1-percent growth in the first three months of this year. BOSA’s Roger Solomons says the party’s growth charter outlines reforms in energy, […]
# Former Free State premier Ace Magashule says his ex-personal assistant, Moroadi Cholota, will remain innocent even if the NPA appeals the Bloemfontein High Court ruling next Friday. The court found Cholota was unlawfully extradited from the US with the basis for her extradition lacking jurisdiction to charge her in the 255-million-rand asbestos fraud trial. […]
# Die Biervereniging van Suid-Afrika waarsku dat hoë aksynsbelasting verbruikers na onwettige alkohol dryf. Tydens die 2025 Afrika-brouery konferensie het die uitvoerende hoof van BASA, Charlene Louw, dringende belastingverligting versoek, en daarop gewys dat 38-persent van die prys van bier aan belasting afgestaan word. Sy het die belangrike ekonomiese rol van bier beklemtoon, insluitend die […]
# Europe’s largest car manufacturer is considering opening an assembly plant in Egypt. The VW Group’s managing director for Africa, Martina Biene told Engineering News it is part of a plan to tap new African markets in the face of slower demand in Europe. Volkswagen could first establish an assembly unit by using existing facilities. […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa says 0.1-percent gross domestic product growth confirms that South Africa is trapped in a deep, structural crisis of capitalism, characterised by stagnation, deindustrialisation, and neocolonial plunder. GIWUSA president, Mametlwe Sebei says the country is confronted with an organic crisis, where the fundamental contradictions of monopoly capital, imperialist […]
# The Beer Association of South Africa warns that high excise taxes are driving consumers toward illicit alcohol. Speaking at the 2025 Africa Brewing Conference, BASA CEO Charlene Louw called for urgent tax relief, citing that 38-percent of a beer’s price goes to tax. She emphasised beer’s vital economic role including supporting over 210-thousand jobs […]
# Die vakbond Giwusa het die geringe verlaging in petrolpryse, wat toegeskryf word aan die sterker Rand teen die Amerikaanse dollar en laer olieprys, verwelkom. Altwee grade petrol kos nou vyf-sent per liter minder en motoriste sal 37-sent minder vir diesel by die pompe betaal. Die paraffienprys in die handel het met 75-sent per liter […]
# Die vakbondfederasie Saftu sê hy verwerp die regering se oppervlakkige viering van die 0,1-persent groei in bruto binnelandse produk in vanjaar se eerste kwartaal. Hy sê die sogenaamde groei is nie insluitend of hervormend nie. Saftu-woordvoerder Newton Masuku sê fiskale, monetêre en handelsbeleid sal radikaal verander moet word om groeivlakke te haal wat genoeg […]
