# The DA says it refuses to be held hostage or intimidated by the ANC’s blatant threat to approach the EFF to pass the value-added tax-based budget. According to the Sunday Times, the ANC has threatened to approach the EFF for the required votes to pass the budget next Wednesday, should the DA not budge. […]
# The ANC Veterans’ League is calling for a constructive, informed, and sober debate on the budget. This is as another special cabinet meeting is scheduled for today to consider alternative proposals to a two-percentage-point hike in value-added tax, as proposed in the rejected February budget. ANC Veterans’ League president, Snuki Zikalala, says the government […]
# Nog ‘n spesiale kabinetsvergadering sal vandag gehou word, sodat die regering van nasionale eenheid die nasionale begroting verder kan bespreek. Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana se begrotingsrede is verlede maand uitgestel nadat die regeringspartye nie konsensus kon bereik oor die voorgestelde verhoging van twee-persent in BTW nie. Die begroting sal nou Woensdag ter […]
# Die minister van Kleinsakeontwikkeling, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, sê Vrydag se sperdatum beteken nie dat die probleme en uitdagings met voldoening deur spazawinkels en voedselhanteringspunte verby is nie. Gister was presies 107 dae sedert president Cyril Ramaphosa die registrasie van alle spazawinkels en voedselafsetpunte aangekondig het ná sterftes weens voedseloordraagbare siektes. Ndabeni-Abrahams sê spazawinkels en voedselondernemings […]
# Die minister van Kleinsakeontwikkeling, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, sê die Spazawinkel-ondersteuningsfonds van 500-miljoen-rand sal binne twee weke in werking gestel word. Die fonds poog om markmededinging te verbeter om spazawinkels en voedselafsetpunte te help om met groter kleinhandelaars mee te ding. Die minister sê ander ondernemings sal steeds voordeel trek uit bestaande departementele fondse en programme, […]
# The Department of Agriculture says the foot and mouth disease outbreak highlights the critical need for stringent control measures to prevent its spread. Test results confirmed the ongoing presence of the viruses in KwaZulu-Natal after a cattle at a dip tank in Mtubatuba tested positive. The department says no cloven-hoofed animals should be accepted […]
# Small Business Development minister, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, says the government is committed to assisting spaza shops and food-handling outlets that are not yet compliant. Following several incidents of food poisoning and deaths related to foodborne illnesses, spaza shops, and food-handling outlets were requested to register by the 28th of last month. Ndabeni-Abrahams says 61 business […]
# Another special cabinet meeting will be held today, as the government of national unity continues to deliberate on the national budget. Finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s budget speech was postponed last month after political parties within the government could not reach a consensus on the proposed two-percent value-added tax increase. The budget will now be […]
# Small Business Development minister, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, says last Friday’s deadline does not mean that the problems and challenges of compliance by spaza shops and food handling outlets are over. Sunday marked exactly 107 days since president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the registration of all spaza shops and food-handling outlets following deaths related to foodborne illnesses. […]
