# The EFF has formally written to National Assembly speaker, Thoko Didiza, regarding urgent constitutional and parliamentary implications arising from Finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s public withdrawal of key components of the 2025 National Budget. Godongwana announced the reversal of the 0.5-percent Value-Added Tax increase, and declared his intent to withdraw both the 2025 Appropriation Bill and the Division of Revenue […]
# Free State High Court Judge Phillip Loubser has ruled that former premier Ace Magashule’s former personal assistant Moroadi Cholota’s challenge to the court’s jurisdiction over her US extradition, will be handled in a trial within a trial. Cholota, together with Magashule and others, face charges in the 255-million-rand asbestos case. She says her extradition […]
# Deputy minister in the Presidency, Nonceba Mhlauli is calling for transformation in the transport, logistics and industrial sectors. The Corporate Social Investment programme will help to train more women who can contribute to economic activities in the sector. Mhlauli says the initiative forms part of government’s broader strategy to reduce youth unemployment by equipping young […]
# Public Works minister Dean Macpherson has received board nominations for the Independent Development Trust. The minister will submit them to Cabinet. Macpherson emphasised a smooth handover to uphold governance and avoid leadership gaps. He praised the current board’s progress despite corruption challenges, and said the new board must build on this foundation. He also […]
# Baie Suid-Afrikaanse ondernemings skarrel volgens berigte om die duur BTW-veranderings aan hul stelsels weer om te keer. Dit volg nadat die regering die BTW-verhoging van 0,5-persentasiepunte wat op 1 Mei sou intree, geskrap het weens politieke teenkanting en koalisiegeskille. Dit laat ondernemings wat in die opgradering van hul stelsels belê het, met vermorste uitgawes. […]
# Die DA sê hy het ʼn aansoek volgens die Wet op die Bevordering van Toegang tot Inligting by die Nasionale Tesourie ingedien. Hy wil vasstel watter aanbevelings van die Mpati-kommissie oor die Openbare Beleggingskorporasie ingestel word. ʼn Kommissie van ondersoek in 2020 onder leiding van regter Lex Mpati het ʼn magdom bestuurs-, bedryfs- en […]
# Many South African businesses are reportedly scrambling to reverse costly value-added tax system changes. This is after the government scrapped the 0.5-percent VAT hike. The reversal followed political backlash and coalition disputes, leaving firms that had invested heavily in compliance upgrades facing wasted expenses. News24 reports that small businesses, in particular, are hardest hit by the […]
# The Agricultural Food and Allied Democratic Workers Union is calling on all its members to unite with the working class in commemorating Workers’ Day across the country next week Thursday. Every year on the first of May, South Africa stands still to honour the indomitable spirit of its working-class men and women. The union’s spokesperson, Khayelihle Khumalo, […]
# The DA says it has submitted a Promotion of Access to Information Act application to the National Treasury. This is to determine which enforcement recommendations of the Mpati Commission into the Public Investment Corporation are being implemented. A 2020 Commission of Inquiry led by Justice Lex Mpati exposed significant governance, operational, and ethical failures […]
