# The EFF has formally submitted alternative revenue-generating proposals to the National Assembly, opposing the proposed value-added tax increase in the 2025 fiscal framework. The budget, which was passed in Parliament last week, includes a 0.5-percentage point VAT increase over the next two financial years. Some of the EFF’s proposals include adjusting personal income tax […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa het die goedkeuring van die nasionale begroting verdedig en gesê dit is ‘n belangrike instrument om ontwikkeling te bevorder, armoede uit te roei en ongelykheid te beperk. Die Parlement het verlede week die fiskale raamwerk goedgekeur, wat ‘n verhoging van 0,5-persent in BTW insluit. In sy weeklikse nuusbrief sê die president […]
# National Assembly speaker, Thoko Didiza, has been elected as the Inter-Parliamentary Union chairperson of the Africa Group of Parliaments. Her responsibilities will include convening member parliaments. Didiza says South Africa’s chairship of the African Caucus will ensure that parliaments contribute to making Africa the best-performing continent in human rights, democracy, and conflict resolution. She says parliaments […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has defended the passing of the national budget, saying it is a critical instrument to drive development, eradicate poverty and narrow inequality. Last week, Parliament adopted the fiscal framework, which included a 0.5-percentage point value-added tax increase. In his weekly newsletter, the president says the expenditure on the social wage can only […]
# AfriForum het ‘n regsbrief aan Eskom gestuur, waarin hulle duidelikheid oor die regulasies wat die registrasie van kleinmaat ingeboude kragopwekkers onder 100 kilowatt vereis. Deidré Steffens van AfriForum bevraagteken die regsgrondslag vir Eskom se afdwinging van hierdie vereiste en moontlike strawwe vir nie-nakoming. Sy sê die organisasie versoek ‘n antwoord teen 18 April, en […]
# AfriForum has sent a legal letter to Eskom, seeking clarity on the regulations mandating the registration of small-scale embedded generators under 100 kilowatts. AfriForum’s Deidré Steffens questions the legal basis for Eskom’s enforcement of this requirement and potential penalties for non-compliance. She says the organisation requests a response by 18 April, reserving the right […]
# Die Inkatha Vryheidsparty het sy onafhanklikheid binne die regering van nasionale eenheid beklemtoon. IVP leier Velenkosini Hlabisa, het in gesprek met die media, beklemtoon die party is in die RNE vir Suid-Afrikaners. Hlabisa het gesê dit is jammer dat die ANC en die DA optree asof net hulle die oplossing vir Suid-Afrika se uitdagings […]
# The Inkatha Freedom Party asserts its autonomy within the government of national unity. Addressing the media, IFP leader Velenkosini Hlabisa emphasised, the party is in the GNU for South Africans. Hlabisa said it is unfortunate that the two parties act like only them have a solution to South African challenges. He underscored the party’s […]
# Die GOOD Party sê hy sal konstruktiewe alternatiewe bied in die nasionale begroting vir die BTW-verhoging en die inkomste verskuiwing van persoonlike belastingkerwe. Die party stel voor om inkomste te verhoog deur belastingvoordele vir die rykes te verminder, die werkersbelastingaansporing te kanselleer, en om tekorte moontlik te dek deur reserwes te gebruik. Op die […]
