# Build One South Africa says the Department of Basic Education needs to account to Parliament for the 150-million-rand in underspending across several provincial departments in the 2024/2025 financial year. The majority of the money, which was intended for feeding schemes, education infrastructure and learning tools, was in the form of conditional grants and will […]
# Business Leadership South Africa sê die harde werk wat die Nasionale Tesourie in die munisipale skuldverligtingsprogram ingesit het, lei nie tot ‘n verbetering in munisipale betalings nie. Munisipaliteite skuld Eskom gesamentlik 94,6-miljard-rand. Die aantal munisipaliteite met ‘n agterstallige skuldbalans van meer as 100-miljoen-rand het tot 75 gestyg. BLSA se uitvoerende hoof, Busiswe Mavuso, sê […]
# The EFF says it cautiously welcomes the recent US-brokered ceasefire agreement in Gaza with a sense of historical scepticism. The first phase of the peace plan has seen the return of all 20 living Israeli hostages held by Hamas and the remains of four hostages. Approximately two-thousand Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel were also […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says members of medical schemes cannot be penalised for not being a burden for the state and paying for their own medical care. The government has indicated that it wants to redirect tax credits for private medical scheme contributions to the National Health Insurance Fund. This would channel approximately 34-billion-rand […]
# Die Kommunikasiewerkersvakbond het sy woede uitgespreek omdat die SABC se totale besteding op uitvoerende direkteure tot 10,3-miljoen-rand gestyg het teenoor 9,9-miljoen-rand in die 2024/2025-boekjaar. Die openbare uitsaaier het ʼn netto verlies van 253,3-miljoen-rand getoon vergeleke met 197,8-miljoen in 2024. Die beskeie inkomstegroei van 1,3-persent is oortref deur ʼn styging van 3-persent in besteding. Die vakbondwoordvoerder, Moffat […]
# FNB senior economist, Thanda Sithole, says the decline in mining output in August represents a setback, amid weak economic growth and elevated global trade uncertainty. South Africa’s mining production fell slightly by 0.2-percent in August, with the biggest declines seen in platinum group metals, gold, and manganese ore. Sithole says domestic structural reforms to improve […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê die Openbare Beskermer se kantoor speel ʼn belangrike rol om die verhouding tussen die landsburgers en die staat fundamenteel te verander. Hy het gisteraand die hoofrede gelewer by die Openbare Beskermer van Suid-Afrika se internasionale 30-jaar-herdenkingskonferensie in Kaapstad. Ramaphosa sê die Openbare Beskermer se kantoor was en is steeds die […]
# The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union says it has received reports from its members about unexplained reductions in their pension fund values. The reductions are reflected in their most recent statements from the Government Employees Pension Fund. Popcru’s spokesperson, Richard Mamabolo, says the fund has attributed these reductions to actuarial projections, which raises […]
# Business Leadership South Africa says the hard work that the National Treasury has put into the municipal debt relief programme is not resulting in an improvement in municipal payments. Municipalities collectively owe Eskom 94.6-billion-rand. The number of municipalities with an arrear debt balance of more than 100-million-rand has increased to 75. BLSA CEO Busiswe […]
