# Cosatu has welcomed the 25 basis points cut to the repo rate by the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee. This brings the repo rate down to 7.25-percent and the prime lending rate to 10.75-percent. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says whilst they had hoped for a more aggressive rate cut of at least 50 […]
# Die nywerheidsvakbond GIWUSA sê hy is teleurgesteld oor die besluit van die Reserwebank se Monetêre Beleidskomitee om rentekoerse met 25 basispunte te verlaag. Die vakbond se president, Mametlwe Sebei, sê dié geringe verlaging is ‘n belediging vir werkers en die armes, wat in skuld verdrink. Hy sê dit bewys die Reserwebank dien finansiers, en […]
# Higher Education and Training minister, Nobuhle Nkabane, has congratulated one of the University of Pretoria’s youngest-ever graduates, Mongiwa Hazel Ntuli. She obtained a degree in Actuarial Science, which she completed at the age of 17. The department’s spokesperson, Camagwini Mavovana, says Ntuli is a shining example of academic excellence, resilience, and the transformative power […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa has expressed disappointment with the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points. The union’s president, Mametlwe Sebei, says this low reduction is an insult to workers and the poor, who are drowning in debt. He adds that […]
# Die GOOD-party sê die stigting van ‘n kommissie van ondersoek na misdade in die apartheidstyd, laat die administrasie van Thabo Mbeki en die Nasionale Vervolgingsverslag feitlik teregstaan op ’n klag van regsverydeling. Die kommissie wil vasstel of daar pogings was om die polisie of NVG te beïnvloed om nie sake van die Waarheid- en […]
# Suid-Afrikaanse kuns het nog ‘n rekord laat spat toe Vladimir Tretchikoff se 1955-skildery, Lady from the Orient, op ‘n veiling in Johannesburg verkoop is. Die meesterstuk het bieërs met 89 vinnige aanbiedinge betower en plaaslik geskiedenis gemaak. Internasionaal het Marlene Dumas se 1997-skildery, Miss January, ook ‘n nuwe wêreldrekord vir ‘n lewende vroulike kunstenaar […]
# South African art has broken yet another record with Vladimir Tretchikoff’s 1955 portrait Lady from the Orient selling for 31.9-million-rand at a Johannesburg auction. The masterpiece captivated bidders with 89 rapid bids, making local history. Internationally, Marlene Dumas’s 1997 painting Miss January also set a new world record for a living female artist, selling for 251.6-million-rand in New […]
# Die Nasionale Energiereguleerder van Suid-Afrika se besluit om ‘n inkortingsraamwerk goed te keur, sal na verwagting drie-duisend-470 megawatt broodnodige netwerkkapasiteit vir windenergie-projekte in die Wes- en Oos-Kaap bring. Deur beheerde inkorting van tot tien-persent toe te laat, is die doel om opeenhoping te verlig, nuwe beleggings te ondersteun en vorige raamwerkbeperkings wat die goedkeur […]
# The National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s approval of a curtailment framework is expected to unlock three-thousand-470 megawatts of much-needed grid capacity for wind energy projects in the Western and Eastern Cape. By allowing a controlled curtailment of up to ten-percent, the decision aims to ease congestion, support new renewable investments, and address past […]
