# Government is urging consumers to check that they are charged the correct value-added tax rate of 15-percent on all goods and services from tomorrow. This follows National Treasury’s reversal of the proposed 0.5-percent VAT increase. Government Communication and Information System’s spokesperson, Kgomotso Ranoto, says vendors are expected to charge VAT at the rate of […]
# Parliament maintains that the processes followed in adopting the 2025 fiscal framework were not unlawful and procedurally defective, as they complied with the Constitution. National Treasury has been sent back to the drawing board by the Western Cape High Court after it set aside the fiscal framework. This follows the reversal of the 0.5-percent […]
# Die Nasionale Unie van Mynwerkers sê hy berei voor om in Mei met loononderhandelings by Sibanye Stillwater te begin. Die maatskappy het in November verlede jaar ʼn eenjaar-loonooreenkoms met vakbonde by sy goudbedrywighede bereik, wat ʼn verhoging van 5,5-persent insluit. Hierdie ooreenkoms verstryk op 30 Junie vanjaar. NUM sê die feit dat die mynbedryf, […]
# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile sê Suid-Afrika wil werkskepping, die bevordering van geslagsbeleid, en billike toegang tot geleenthede die middelpunt van die G20-dialoog maak. Hy het Dinsdag in Pretoria ʼn hoofrede gelewer by die T20 Afrika-hoëvlakbeleidsdialoog. Mashatile sê Afrika moet die voortslepende uitdagings van ekonomiese ontwikkeling, politieke onbestendigheid en swak regering aanspreek. Hy sê Afrika kan […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa and Botswana want to advance trade, investment and good international relations. On Wednesday, he hosted Botswana’s president, Duma Boko, at Mahlamba Ndlopfu, his official residence in Pretoria. Ramaphosa says bilateral relations between the two countries are strong and cover a wide spectrum of areas, including political, economic, environmental, […]
# Die nasionale polisiekommissaris, Fannie Masemola, het bevestig dat drie van die vyf liggame wat uit die Hennopsrivier in Centurion, Pretoria, gehaal is, dié van die konstabels is wat verlede Woensdag vermis geraak het. Konstabels Linda Cebekhulu, Keamogetswe Buys en Boipelo Senoge het verdwyn terwyl hulle van Bloemfontein na hul ontplooiingsgebied in Limpopo gereis het. […]
# The National Union of Mineworkers says preparations are already underway to begin national wage negotiations with Sibanye Stillwater in May. In November last year, the company reached a one-year wage agreement with unions at its gold operations, which comprised increases of 5.5-percent. This agreement ends on June 30th this year. NUM says the fact […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile says South Africa is committed to placing employment generation, advancing gender-responsive policies, and equitable access to opportunity at the centre of the G20 dialogue. He delivered a keynote address at the T20 Africa High-Level Policy Dialogue in Pretoria on Tuesday. Mashatile says there is a need for Africa to address […]
# National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola, has confirmed that three of the five bodies retrieved from the Hennops River in Centurion, Pretoria, are those of the constables who were reported missing last Wednesday. Constables Linda Cebekhulu, Keamogetswe Buys, and Boipelo Senoge went missing while travelling from Bloemfontein to their deployment area in Limpopo. Masemola says […]
