# Cell C may soon debut on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Majority shareholder Blue Label Telecoms announced plans to restructure the mobile operator, aiming to streamline operations and enhance financial sustainability. The proposed changes include converting debt to equity and transferring assets to strengthen Cell C’s balance sheet. This move is expected to position Cell […]
# South African Revenue Service Commissioner Edward Kieswetter has emphasised the need for collaboration to tackle global trade challenges, including illicit trade and drug trafficking. He was speaking at the 31st World Customs Organisation East and Southern Africa Governing Council in Pretoria. Delegates adopted the 2025 to 2028 Regional Strategy to enhance trade facilitation and […]
# AfriForum says government should prioritise the maintenance of existing World Heritage Sites before nominating new ones. This follows a call by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment for proposals to add more sites to the list. AfriForum’s Marais de Vaal says sites like Robben Island in the Western Cape and Mapungubwe in […]
# DA leader John Steenhuisen has commended Finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s efforts on the revised national budget, known as Budget 3.0. Speaking at the Nampo Harvest Day expo in the Free State, Steenhuisen described the presentation as wonderful while welcoming the progress made in the process. He emphasised the collaborative approach in crafting a credible […]
# Tiger Brands het die verkoop van sy Langeberg- en Ashton Foods-ingemaakte vrugte-onderneming aangekondig aan ‘n konsortium wat Wes-Kaapse vrugteprodusente insluit. Dit is daarop gemik om meer as drie-duisend werksgeleenthede te beskerm en te verseker dat die onderneming volhoubaar bly. As deel van die ooreenkoms sal die onderneming 150-miljoen-rand in ‘n gemeenskapstrust belê om die […]
# AfriForum sê die pas-aangekondigde vennootskap tussen die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag en Mangaung se Verkeersdepartement in die Vrystaat hou die risiko in om burgerlike wetstoepassing te militariseer. Die organisasie waarsku dat militêre opleiding vir verkeersbeamptes die publiek se vertroue kan ondermyn en wetstoepassing kan wegskuif van ‘n gemeenskapsgebaseerde benadering. Jacques Broodryk van AfriForum het om […]
# Die EFF-parlementslid, Sihle Lonzi, het die onttrekking van omstrede SETA-raadsaanstellings verwelkom. Hy is verwyder tydens ‘n parlementêre vergadering nadat hy die aanstelling van Gwede Mantashe se seun, Buyambo Mantashe, op ‘n raad bevraagteken het. Lonzi sê die terugtrekking is ‘n positiewe stap. Hy beklemtoon die EFF sal toekomstige prosesse noukeurig monitor om deursigtigheid en […]
# Die burgerregte-organisasie AfriForum sê hy het regstappe teen die Stad Tshwane begin om uitsluitsel te kry oor die instelling van die metro se voorgestelde omgewings- of stadskoonmaakheffing. Die organisasie sê die metro beplan om dié maandelikse heffing van sowat 200-rand vanaf 1 Julie in werking te stel. Volgens Deidré Steffens van AfriForum sal alle […]
# The Public Servants Association says the cancellation of one-billion-rand in irregular contracts at the Department of Water and Sanitation is a step in the right direction. The PSA welcomes the Special Investigating Unit’s efforts, which have already recovered 569-million-rand, but warns that corruption is still crippling service delivery. The association’s Claude Naiker says many […]
