# The Public Servants Association has welcomed the deployment of over 200-thousand assistant teachers, in an attempt to ease educators’ workload and create jobs for young people. Recent research revealed that South Africa has a shortfall of some 46-thousand educators. This is aggravated by the fact that around 18-thousand educators are leaving the profession annually […]
# 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 […]
The headlines of the leading newspapers on 24 April 2025: NATIONAL: # Business Day: Reports the International Monetary Fund has reiterated its view that South Africa’s debt level will not stabilise as National Treasury has projected in successive budgets. The IMF says it will rise to 88-percent of GDP by 2030 unless the government implements […]
Die hooftrekke uit die belangrikste nuusblaaie soos op 24 April 2025: NASIONAAL: # Business Day: Berig die Internasionale Monetêre Fonds het sy siening herhaal dat Suid-Afrika se skuldvlak nie sal bestendig soos die Nasionale Tesourie in opeenvolgende begrotings geprojekteer het nie. Die IMF sê dit sal teen 2030 tot 88-persent van BBP styg, tensy die […]
# 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 […]