# 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 […]
# The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa launched a report entitled, Food for Thought. The report aims to better understand how some of the institute’s partners and client groups have been affected by and responded to food insecurity and hunger issues. It says 23.1-percent of households nationally consider their access to food as inadequate or severely inadequate. The institute […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile’s March visit to Japan cost taxpayers over 2.3-million-rand, with nearly 900-thousand spent on accommodation for him and his wife. Responding to parliamentary questions from ActionSA, Mashatile confirmed that the trip was undertaken to strengthen bilateral ties and promote investment opportunities. News24 reports, the total bill included more than 1.2-million-rand for […]
# Cape Town’s I AM WATER Ocean Conservation Foundation has been nominated for the 2025 Earthshot Prize. The foundation, connecting underserved youth to the ocean, gained global recognition for its Ocean For All initiative. Founder Hanli Prinsloo says ocean connection transforms communities and more than 48-thousand-900 youth have benefitted since 2019. The prestigious Earthshot Prize […]
# ActionSA doen ‘n beroep op die polisie om die veiligheid van kinders onmiddellik voor op te stel. Die party vra vir vinnige, gekoördineerde optrede op aanmeldings van vermiste kinders, en om gespesialiseerde kinderbeskermings- en geslagsgeweld-ondersoekeenhede weer in te stel. Die Gautengse polisie het ‘n klopjag na verdagtes van stapel gestuur nadat die 14-jarige Lukhona […]
# 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 […]
# Cosatu sê die regering moet sy beloftes van 2018 en 2022 nakom en die talle brandstofbelastings en -heffings hersien wat sowat ʼn derde van die brandstofprys uitmaak. Die verhoging in die brandstofheffing het ingetree nadat die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof die EFF se aansoek om dit op te skort, verwerp het. Cosatu-woordvoerder Matthew Parks sê dis […]
# 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 […]
# The CEO of AgriSA, Johann Kotze, says South Africa needs a food security index that will be active in real time. Based on the 1996 World Food Summit, food security is defined as a state which exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to […]
