# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Mineraleraad verwelkom die regering se fokus op fiskale volhoubaarheid en strukturele hervormings. Die raad voer aan vinniger optrede rondom infrastruktuur vir elektrisiteit, water, spoorweë en hawens is noodsaaklik om beleggings in die mynbou en ekonomiese groei aan te wakker. Die groeivoorspelling vir die jaar is tans 1,2-persent. Die raad vra die regering […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa moedig werkgewers aan om jongmense geleentheid te gun om werkservaring op te doen. Hy het op ‘n konferensie oor jeugindiensneming in Sandton, Johannesburg, gesê ‘n gebrek aan ervaring beteken nie ‘n gebrek aan vermoë nie, en moedig ondernemings aan om te let op jongmense se talente en bereidwilligheid om te leer. […]
# Umkhonto we Sizwe founding member and former Intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils has told the Khampepe Commission that young recruits arriving at training camps in the 1970s and 1980s wanted to kill white South Africans, driven by anger at apartheid. Kasrils says recruits were taught that the struggle was against the apartheid system, not race […]
# Statistics South Africa says annual consumer inflation rose for a second consecutive month, reaching 4.5-percent in September, up from 4.4-percent in August. Rising fuel prices were a major driver, with transport costs accounting for a third of overall inflation. Fuel prices increased by 27.9-percent over the past year, while food inflation also edged to […]
# The South African Responsible Gambling Foundation says more than one-thousand-three-hundred South Africans who sought help for gambling-related harm were flagged as high suicide risk in 2025/26. This comes as South Africa marks Mental Health Awareness Month. The Foundation’s executive director Sibongile Simelane-Quntana says of the five-thousand 199 screend, one-thousand-345 were at a high risk […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa vra dringende stappe om struikelblokke uit die weg te ruim wat bydra tot jeugwerkloosheid. Hy het op ‘n konferensie oor jeugindiensneming in Sandton, Johannesburg, gesê baie jongmense bly werkloos al is hul studies voltooi. Ramaphosa het ook die uitdagings beklemtoon waarmee jong entrepreneurs te kampe het, insluitend ‘n gebrek aan befondsing […]
# ‘n Onderwyser wat beskuldig word van die verkragting van ‘n negejarige leerder van die Busisiwe Primary School in Zola, Soweto, het homself aan die polisie oorgegee. Die Gautengse polisie het bevestig hy sal aangekla word van verkragting. Die onderwyser is gister voorlopig geskors nadat die bewerings gelei het tot betogings deur ouers en inwoners. […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says companies must view youth training and skills development as an investment in their businesses. He was speaking at a youth employment conference in Sandton, Johannesburg. Ramaphosa says young people bring fresh perspectives, as industries embrace artificial intelligence. He says existing youth employment programmes must lead to sustainable livelihoods, not just […]
# Government has provided a loan guarantee of up to one-billion-rand to SA Airways to help fund its day-to-day operations in the face of rising fuel prices. Treasury director-general Duncan Pieterse says it is not an allocation, meaning government guarantees to pay back loans of up to one-billion-rand should the airline default. He adds government […]
