# Die nywerheidsvakbond GIWUSA het ‘n beroep op die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank gedoen om die rentekoers drasties te verlaag. Suid-Afrika se huidige terugkoopkoers bly 7,5-persent nadat die Reserwebank by sy beleidsvergadering in Maart besluit het om sy rentekoers onveranderd te laat. Dié besluit volg na drie opeenvolgende 25-basispunt verlagings. Die prima-uitleenkoers vir handelsbanke is elf-persent. Die […]
# The DA says it is deeply shocked by the growing number of officers implicated in serious crimes, but who are still in service. The party’s, Ian Cameron, says the officers implicated included a police constable currently stationed in Kuilsriver, out on bail for rape, yet who remains in service. Cameron says a national audit […]
# Cosatu says the rising number of municipalities battling to pay staff, including pension funds, or provide basic services to residents, requires drastic interventions to stabilise and rebuild local government. Municipal debt owed to Eskom is sitting at around 94-billion-rand. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Matthew Parks, says they are concerned about community debt owed to municipalities nearing […]
# Die minister van Landbou, John Steenhuisen, sê sy departement se verskerpte pogings om bek-en-klouseer te beheer en uit te wis, is werp vrugte af. Die siektebestuur in Limpopo en die Oos-Kaap word binnekort opgehef en ʼn dringende bestelling vir noodsaaklike entstof ter waarde van 72-miljoen-rand is geplaas. Die ministerie se woordvoerder, Joylene van Wyk, […]
# Die Ouditeur-generaal, Tsakani Maluleke, sê die stand van finansiële en prestasiebestuur-dissiplines in plaaslike regering laat veel te wense oor. Plaaslike regering het die afgelope drie jaar 17,6-miljard-rand verloor weens vrugtelose en verkwistende besteding. Die ouditeur-generaal het bevind slegs 41 uit 257 rade het in die 2023/2024-boekjaar ʼn skoon oudit ontvang. Maluleki het aan die […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa is calling on the South African Reserve Bank to drastically cut the interest rate. South Africa’s current repo rate remains at 7.5-percent, after SARB chose to keep rates unchanged at its March Monetary Policy Committee meeting. This decision followed three consecutive 25-basis-point cuts. The prime lending […]
# Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, says that intensified efforts by his department to control and eradicate foot-and-mouth disease are paying off. This as disease management areas of two provinces, Limpopo and Eastern Cape, will soon be lifted, and an urgent order has been placed for much-needed vaccines to the value of 72-million-rand. Ministry’s spokesperson, […]
# Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke says the state of financial and performance management disciplines in local government leaves much to be desired. Local government has lost 17.6-billion-rand over the past three years to fruitless and wasteful expenditure. The Auditor-General found that only 41 out of 257 councils received a clean audit in the 2023/2024 financial year. […]
# Die EFF beskuldig die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau van korrupte optrede in die toekenning van die lisensie aan Sizekhaya Holdings om die Nasionale Lotery en Sport-wedpoel te bedryf. Altesaam agt maatskappye het gebie om die multi-miljard-rand lisensie oor te neem. Die Goldrush-groep, ‘n filiaal van Goldrush Holdings wat op die […]
