# Die DA het bevestig dat die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, se prokureurs die party genader het om buite die hof te skik. Dit hou verband met die DA se aansoek in die Hooggeregshof om ʼn interdik te kry teen die BTW-verhoging. Godongwana het intussen in ʼn verklaring gesê hy het besluit om die […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has rejected the Department of Traditional Affairs’ targets addressing harmful practices associated with illegal initiation schools. The department plans to reduce initiation deaths from 63 to 13 and illegal schools from 429 to 229 by 2029. This will be done through increased oversight and regulatory reform. Committee […]
# Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, arrived in South Africa on an official visit on Wednesday evening. He was welcomed by minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola. This official visit to the country is the first by a Ukrainian president. Zelensky says he will be having important meetings with president Cyril Ramaphosa and representatives […]
# The DA has confirmed that lawyers acting for the minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, have approached the party proposing an out-of-court settlement. This is concerning the High Court matter the DA brought to interdict the VAT increase. Meanwhile, Godongwana has released a statement, saying that he has decided to reverse the decision to hike […]
# Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, het besluit om die BTW-verhoging van 0,5-persentasiepunte terug te trek. Hy sê in ʼn verklaring die besluit volg ná uitgebreide beraadslaging met politieke partye en versigtige oorweging van die parlementêre komitees se aanbevelings. Godongwana sê deur nie BTW te verhoog nie, sal daar op die medium termyn ʼn […]
# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile het erken dat die huidige begrotingsproses nie deursigtig en insluitend genoeg is nie. Hy het ʼn hoëvlak-konferensie oor die 2025-begroting toegespreek wat die Finansiële en Fiskale Kommissie van Suid-Afrika belê het. Mashatile sê in teenstelling met ander regerings in die wêreld wat ineengestort het weens fiskale geskille, het Suid-Afrika die uitdagings […]
# Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has decided to withdraw the decision to hike the value-added tax rate by 0.5 percentage points. In a statement, the minister says this decision follows extensive consultations with political parties and careful consideration of the recommendations of the parliamentary committees. Godongwana says that by not increasing VAT, estimated revenue will […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê terwyl ander lande mure bou, insluitend die oplegging van tariewe, is dit Suid-Afrika en Lesotho se plig om handelsbetrekkinge te bevorder wat gemeenskaplike belange weerspieël. Die president was gister mede-voorsitter van die tweede sessie van die Suid-Afrika-Lesotho Bi-Nasionale Kommissie in Maseru. Ramaphosa sê die twee nasies sien die geleentheid vir […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile has acknowledged that the current budgetary process is not transparent and inclusive enough. He addressed a high-level Budget 2025 Roundtable convened by the Financial and Fiscal Commission of South Africa. Mashatile says in contrast to other governments around the world that have collapsed due to fiscal disputes, South Africa has […]
