# Sakevertroue is bestendiger, maar op ʼn vlak wat steeds te laag is om die groter belegging en groei in indiensneming wat Suid-Afrika nodig het, te ondersteun. Dit is volgens die jongste Sakevertroue-aanwyser wat deur die finansiëledienstefirma, RMB, en die Buro vir Ekonomiese Navorsing uitgegee is. Sakevertroue het in die derde kwartaal met ʼn punt […]
# The South African Police Service has confirmed that Crime Intelligence deputy head Feroz Khan has been dismissed. This follows his failure to appear before an internal police disciplinary hearing over misconduct allegations against him. On Monday, the Labour Court dismissed Khan’s urgent bid to stop a disciplinary process that could cost him his job. […]
# AfriForum het aan die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, geskryf en eis ʼn onafhanklike oudit van die brandstofprys en -heffing, insluitend die algemene brandstof-, koolstof- en Padongelukkefonds-heffing. Petrolpryse het hierdie maand met een-rand-34-sent per liter gestyg terwyl diesel tussen twee-rand-93-sent en drie-rand-15-sent per liter meer kos. Ernst van Zyl van AfriForum sê die tydelike […]
# Airlink het sy aansoek om goedkeuring vir ‘n oorvlug voor Saterdag se derde toets tussen die Springbokke en die All Blacks in Johannesburg teruggetrek. Dit volg terwyl die Suid-Afrikaanse Burgerlugvaartowerheid ondersoek instel na die afgelope naweek se Airlink-oorvlug oor Kaapstad-stadion voor die tweede toets, na kritiek oor die hoogte van die oorvlug. Die owerheid […]
# Die Verkiesingskommissie sê sy verslae toon geen bewyse van probleme met sy kandidaatbenoeming-stelsel op die sperdatum nie. Dit volg nadat die ANC sê tegniese foute het hom verhoed om kandidaatlyste vir verskeie munisipaliteite voor verlede Vrydag se sperdatum in te dien. Die kommissie het dit egter verwerp en gesê sy aanlyn stelsel was operasioneel. […]
# Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence has elected the ANC’s Mzimasi Hala as its new co-chairperson, following the unexpected and unexplained removal of Malusi Gigaba from the position. Hala was elected with six votes to two, while the EFF abstained. Gigaba faces fraud and corruption charges linked to the Transnet tender for over one-thousand locomotives […]
# Business confidence has stabilised, but at a level that remains too low to support the stronger investment and employment growth South Africa needs. This is according to the latest Business Confidence Index published by financial services firm RMB and the Bureau for Economic Research. Business confidence dropped a point to 38 in the third […]
# AfriForum has written to minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, demanding an independent audit of the fuel price and levy, including the general fuel, carbon and Road Accident Fund levies. Petrol prices have gone up by one-rand-34-cents a litre and diesel prices by between two-rand-93- and three-rand-15-cents per litre this month. AfriForum’s Ernst van Zyl […]
# Airlink has withdrawn its application for approval for a third flyover ahead of the third Test between the Springboks and the All Blacks in Johannesburg on Saturday. This comes as the South African Civil Aviation Authority is investigating this past weekend’s Airlink flypast over Cape Town Stadium ahead of the second Test, following criticism […]
