# Eskom has posted an after-tax profit of 16-billion-rand for the full year ending March 2025, its first return to profitability in eight years. This is up from the 55-billion-rand loss recorded in the previous year. The power utility has attributed its return to profit in large part to its unpopular 12.74-percent standard tariff increase, debt […]
# Trade, Industry, and Competition minister Parks Tau says he remains optimistic about the renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act. This is despite AGOA officially expiring yesterday. Renewal is critical for South Africa as AGOA accounts for over 69-billion-rand in exports to the US, which represents 28-percent of all SA-US trade. Tau says […]
# Tourism minister Patricia de Lille has accused ousted members of the SA Tourism board of using inappropriate tactics to pressure her into reversing her decision to dissolve the board. Last month, the ousted board members filed an urgent application in the High Court in Pretoria to overturn the minister’s decision. They argue that the minister’s […]
# The ANC has described South Africa’s ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, as a committed cadre of the liberation struggle and a dedicated servant of the people. Mthethwa, a former cabinet member and former ANC national executive committee member, having previously served as minister of Police and minister of Arts and Culture, died at a […]
# Die motorvakbond MISA sê Suid-Afrika het te laat opgetree om nuwe handelsooreenkomste met Amerika te sluit voor die Wet op Groei en Geleenthede in Afrika gister verval het. Hulle waarsku dat hierdie mislukking werksverliese in die kleinhandelmotorbedryf sal vererger waar afleggings alreeds styg. Die woordvoerder van die vereniging, Sonja Carstens, sê pogings deur president […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa betreur die dood van Suid-Afrika se ambassadeur in Frankryk, Nathi Mthethwa, wat in Parys op die ouderdom van 58 oorlede is. Ramaphosa het sy meegevoel betuig met sy vrou, Philisiwe Buthelezi, sy familie en kollegas. Hy het Mthethwa geloof vir sy diens in die kabinet as minister van Sport, Kuns en […]
# Endeavor South Africa sê ‘n reeks hoëprofiel-tegnologie- en fintech-uittredes in Suid-Afrika veroorsaak ‘n herlewing in beleggersvertroue. Ondernemings soos DocFox, Bank Zero, iKhokha en Syft Analytics is oor die afgelope 18 maande vir miljarde verkry, met 21 Afrika-uittredes in 2025. Die besturende direkteur, Alison Collier, sê hierdie transaksies bewys dat likiditeit terugkeer en vars kapitaal […]
# Getuienis by die Madlanga-kommissie in Pretoria dui aan sakeman en ANC-beïnvloeder, Brown Mogotsi, het toegang tot geklassifiseerde polisie-inligting gehad. Die hoof van Misdaadintelligensie, Dumisani Khumalo, het aan die kommissie gesê Mogoti het geweet van die ontbinding van die KwaZulu-Natal taakspan vir politieke moorde, voor die aankondiging gemaak is. Khumalo sê Mogotsi het Vusimuzi “Cat” […]
Die Breast Imaging Society of South Africa vra vroue om hul risiko vir borskanker te bepaal, met gevalle onder jonger vroue wat toeneem. Oktober is borskankerbewustheidsmaand, en die vereniging sê 20-persent van borskankergevalle in Suid-Afrika kom voor by vroue onder 40. Peter Schoub van die organisasie waarsku dat laat diagnose ‘n groot uitdaging bly en […]
