# President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged businesses to increase investment as the government continues with economic reforms aimed at boosting growth and creating jobs. Speaking at the launch of phase three of the government-business partnership in Johannesburg, Ramaphosa said the government must provide policy certainty, efficient regulation, reliable infrastructure and capable institutions, while businesses must […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa het ‘n teiken gestel vir die mobilisering van drie-duisend-miljard-rand se beleggings met die aanvang van die derde fase van die vennootskap tussen die regering en sake-ondernemings. Hy het tydens die bekendstelling in Johannesburg gesê die nuwe fase sal fokus op ekonomiese groei, werkskepping en beleggersvertroue. Ramaphosa sê die regering wil ekonomiese […]
# Die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria sal die betoë oor die voormalige speaker van die Nasionale Vergadering, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, se aansoek om ontslag kragtens Artikel 174 van die Strafproseswet die 31ste aanhoor. Die staat het sy saak gesluit, terwyl die verdediging aanvoer aanklaers het nie daarin geslaag om ‘n prima facie-saak te bewys nie. Mapisa-Nqakula staan […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has set a target to mobilise three-trillion-rand in investment as government and business enter the third phase of their partnership. Speaking at the launch in Johannesburg, Ramaphosa said the new phase will focus on economic growth, job creation and investor confidence. He said government wants to lift economic growth above three-percent, […]
# Controversial businessman Stuart James Scharnick has been arrested outside the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria following an alleged intimidation confrontation with Sowetan journalist Herman Moloi. Scharnick, an associate of suspended police deputy commissioner Shadrack Sibiya, was reportedly captured on camera during the incident. Scharnick had been attending proceedings involving National Coloured Congress leader and Member […]
# The High Court in Pretoria will hear arguments on former National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s application for a discharge under Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act on the 31st. The state has closed its case, while the defence argues prosecutors failed to establish a prima facie case. Mapisa-Nqakula faces 12 corruption charges and […]
# Ondersoeke na die noodlottige gebou-instorting in Ormonde, Johannesburg, het bevind balke en kolomme wat die betrokke betonblaaie gesteun het, was nie sterk genoeg vir die bykomende las nie. Nege werkers is dood en ses beseer toe ‘n deel van die tweede verdieping vroeër vanjaar ingetuimel het. Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean […]
# Self-proclaimed political fixer Brown Mogotsi is expected back in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court next Tuesday for his fourth bail application, based on new facts. The North West businessman Mogotsi today briefly appeared in court on allegations that he staged his own assassination attempt in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg, last year. He faces charges of […]
# Investigations into the fatal Ormonde building collapse in Johannesburg have found that beams and columns supporting the affected slabs were not strong enough for additional construction loads. Nine workers died and six were injured when part of the second floor collapsed earlier this year. Public Works and Infrastructure minister Dean Macpherson says investigators raised […]
