# FNB sê die gevaar van digitale bankbedrog neem toe terwyl Suid-Afrikaners die laaste deel van die jaar aanpak en besteding toeneem. Volgens die Suid-Afrikaanse Bankbedrog-inligtingsentrum het voorvalle van digitale bankbedrog toegeneem van 31-duisend in 2023 tot 64-duisend verlede jaar. Chris Boxall van FNB sê swendelaars word al meer gesofistikeerd in die manier waarop hulle sosiale […]
# Efficient Group chief economist, Dawie Roodt, expects the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to keep interest rates unchanged today. Despite inflation easing from 3.5-percent in July to 3.3-percent in August, Roodt says Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago is likely to delay another cut until November. The repo rate currently sits at seven-percent, with the […]
# AfriForum sê hy veroordeel die regering se geheimsinnige pogings by die Nasionale Ekonomiese Ontwikkelings- en Arbeidsraad, Nedlac, om voorgestelde wysigings aan die Wet op Vuurwapenbeheer deur te voer, sonder enige verteenwoordiging van die burgerlike samelewing. Nedlac ontken dat hy die proses gelei het. Jacques Broodryk van AfriForum sê die organisasie gaan ingevolge die Wet […]
# Transport minister Barbara Creecy has directed Transnet’s National Port Authority to renew leases for tenants at Durban’s Island View precinct and guarantee access for the Central Energy Fund. The 25-year-old directive seeks to balance transformation with energy security, creating space for emerging black players. The department’s spokesperson, Collen Msibi, confirmed that Creecy has also […]
# The South African Communist Party has welcomed the findings by the United Nations’ Independent International Commission of Inquiry, that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The commission stated that four of the five genocidal acts, defined under international law, have been carried out by Israel in Gaza since the start of the […]
# Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen says South Africa is driving collaboration with the B20 to finance resilient, inclusive, and sustainable food systems. B20 serves as the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community. Steenhuisen says the B20 Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture Task Force has built a pragmatic platform for this collaboration. He […]
# Build One South Africa says it is using International Equal Pay Day, which is today, to mobilise support for its Fair Pay Bill, currently before Parliament. The bill seeks to close the gender wage gap, confront wage exploitation in key sectors, and create a more equal and transparent economic environment. BOSA spokesperson, Roger Solomons, […]
# FNB says the risk of digital banking fraud is on the increase, as South Africans head into the last stretch of the year and spending rises. According to the South African Banking Risk Information Centre, digital banking fraud incidents increased from 31-thousand-612 cases in 2023 to 64-thousand in 2024. FNB’s Chris Boxall says scammers are […]
# AfriForum says it condemns the government’s secretive attempts at the National Economic Development and Labour Council to push through proposed amendments to the Firearms Control Act, without any representation from civil society. Nedlac denies leading the amendment process. AfriForum’s Jacques Broodryk says they will be filing a Promotion of Access to Information Act application to force […]
