# South Africa’s International Trade Administration Commission and China’s Trade Remedies Investigation Bureau have renewed a cooperation agreement on trade remedies. The framework covers anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures, while strengthening information sharing, transparency and technical cooperation. It also supports efforts to identify potential circumvention of trade measures. ITAC says the renewed agreement modernises a […]
# The South African Revenue Service Commissioner Johnstone Makhubu says the revenue service has recovered from the damage caused during the State Capture era. Speaking at the Money Summit, Makhubu said tax collections have outpaced economic growth for five consecutive years. SARS collected a record 2.01-trillion-rand in the 2025/26 financial year, up 8.4-percent and above […]
# FNB Bank senior agricultural economist, Paul Makube, says today’s sharp fuel-price increase has arrived at a sensitive time for the agricultural sector, just weeks before the start of the summer crop production season. Petrol prices have increased by one-rand-34-cents a litre, and diesel prices by between two-rand-93- and three-rand-15-cents per litre. Makube says the […]
# Die Amerikaanse Kongres het ‘n verlenging van die Wet op Groei en Geleenthede in Afrika goedgekeur tot einde 2028. Dis in 2000 ingestel en bied kwalifiserende lande in Afrika suid van die Sahara, insluitend Suid-Afrika, belastingvrye toegang vir meer as een-duisend-800 produkte tot die Amerikaanse mark. Die Demokratiese kongreslid, Terri Sewell, sê AGOA versterk […]
# The Special Investigating Unit has welcomed the arrest of syndicate kingpin Joel Govindraju in connection with its probe of more than two-billion-rand looted through Tembisa Hospital tenders. He faces multiple charges arising from allegations of the procurement of medical supplies and equipment at the hospital. The SIU says the Govindraju Syndicate siphoned approximately 600-million-rand […]
# The US Congress has passed an extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act until the end of 2028. This followed Senate’s approval last month. AGOA was first enacted in 2000 to provide duty-free access to the US market for eligible Sub-Saharan countries, including South Africa, covering over one-thousand-800 products. Democratic Congresswoman Terri Sewell […]
# Die minister van Justisie en Grondwetlike Ontwikkeling, Mmamoloko Kubayi, sê Leonard Lekgetho is aangestel as nuwe hoof van die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid terwyl die regering sy pogings voortsit om korrupsie te bekamp. Lekgetho het 19 jaar ervaring in die eenheid. Woordvoerder Palesa Rammitlwa sê Kubayi glo sy ondervinding en grondige kennis sal hom goed te […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare doen ʼn beroep op die regering om dringend maatreëls in te stel wat Suid-Afrikaners teen vandeesmaand se skerp styging in brandstofpryse kan beskerm. Albei grade petrol het met een-rand-34-sent per liter gestyg terwyl diesel tussen twee-rand-93-sent en drie-rand-15-sent per liter meer kos. Die vakbond-woordvoerder, Claude Naicker, sê dringende maatreëls, soos onmiddellike […]
# Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mmamoloko Kubayi, says the appointment of Leonard Lekgetho as the new head of the Special Investigating Unit comes at a time when government continues to strengthen its efforts to combat corruption. Lekgetho’s experience spans 19 years, from 2007 to the present in the SIU. The department’s spokesperson, Palesa […]
