# Africa Expert Panel chairperson, Trevor Manuel, says urgent global action is needed to address Africa’s mounting debt crisis. Speaking to the G20 South Africa channel at a G20 Finance Track event in KwaZulu-Natal, Manuel stressed that richer northern countries must be held accountable as G20 southern nations should create a unified force behind a […]
# Sakeliga en TLU SA het ‘n Hooggeregshofaansoek ingedien om die Departement van Water- en Sanitasie te verhoed om onregmatig skuld vir watergebruik wat reeds verval het, in te vorder. Hulle voer aan waterrekeninge verval na drie jaar kragtens die Verjaringswet. Die Departement het dit wel in 2021 erken, maar het sedertdien sy standpunt verander. […]
# Die burgemeester van Kaapstad, Geordin Hill-Lewis, sê die Suid-Afrikaanse Eiendomseienaarsvereniging se poging om die metro se pro-arm begroting te keer, is daarop gemik om hul eie gevestigde belange te beskerm en hulle eie winste bo die belange van die stad se inwoners te stel. Hill-Lewis het verwys na die vereniging se hangende Hooggeregshofaansoek vir […]
# BankservAfrica se Ekonomiese Transaksie-aanwyser het in Junie die tweede agtereenvolgende maand ‘n verhoging aangeteken, wat ‘n verbeterde ekonomiese momentum aandui. Die aanwyser, wat alle elektroniese transaksies volg en seisoenaal aangepas word vir werklike pryse, het met 0,4-persent gestyg tot 139,1. Dit dui sterker groei in die tweede kwartaal aan, met mynwese en die vervaardigingsektor […]
# Sakeliga and TLU SA have filed a High Court application to stop the Water and Sanitation Department from unlawfully collecting expired water-use debts. They argue that water charges lapse after three years under the Prescription Act. The Department had previously admitted this in 2021 but has since reversed its position. Sakeliga’s Tian Alberts warns […]
# Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the South African Property Owners Association’s attempt to stop the metro’s pro-poor budget is to protect their own vested interests, and puts their profits ahead of the people of Cape Town. The mayor says this is in response to SAPOA’s pending High Court application for a review of […]
# BankservAfrica’s Economic Transactions Index recorded a second monthly rise in June, indicating improved economic momentum. The index, which tracks all electronic transactions at seasonally adjusted real prices, rose by 0.4-percent to 139.1. According to the index, the back-to-back increases suggest stronger second-quarter growth, with mining and manufacturing sectors likely to contribute positively. It adds […]
# Die president van die Reserwebank, Lesetja Kganyago, waarsku dat Amerikaanse tariewe die voertuigvervaardigings- en die landbousektor in Suid-Afrika die ergste sal raak. Amerika gaan vanaf begin volgende maand ‘n tarief van 30 persent op uitvoere uit Suid-Afrika instel. Ongeveer 100-duisend werksgeleenthede in die motor- en die landbousektor is in gevaar, insluitend 35-duisend net in […]
# South African Reserve Bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago, is warning that the US tariffs will impact the automotive and agriculture sectors the most in the country. America is set to impose a 30-percent tariff on exports from South Africa from August 1st. Around 100-thousand jobs in the automotive and agriculture sectors are at risk, including […]
