# Die MK-party is sterk gekant teen die 2025 fiskale raamwerk en belastingvoorstelle wat deur die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, ingedien is. Die parlementêre komitee oor Finansies het gister vergader en die ANC, ActionSA en IVP het saamgespan om die fiskale raamwerk met streng voorwaardes te aanvaar. Die MK-party sê die voorgestelde maatreëls in […]
# Tennis: Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka earned his first tour-level win of the season in the first round of the Tiriac Open in Bucharest, Romania. He battled past qualifier Timofey Skatov of Kazakhstan, 6-4, 6-7, 7-6. Wawrinka is the third player aged 40 or over to win an ATP Tour or Grand Slam match on clay […]
# Economist Dawie Roodt says increasing the value-added tax by 0.5-percentage points is no longer necessary, given that the South African Revenue Service has collected nearly ten-billion-rand more than originally estimated. The proposed VAT increase is a major stumbling block in Finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s national budget, which will be voted on in Parliament today. Roodt says […]
# Six suspects were killed during a shootout with police in two separate incidents in Soweto, Gauteng, on Tuesday. Two suspected cash-in-transit robbers were shot and killed in Dobsonville, and five others were arrested while firearms and ammunition were also seized. The Police ministry’s spokesperson, Kamogelo Mogotsi, says in the second operation in Moletsane, a […]
# New Jersey Democratic Senator, Cory Booker, has broken the record for the longest speech ever delivered in the US Senate. He spoke for 25-hours-and-four-minutes, surpassing the late Senator Strom Thurmond’s speech against the Civil Rights Act, which lasted 24-hours-and-18-minutes in 1957. Booker intended the effort as a protest and spent his time criticising president Donald Trump’s […]
# The MK Party strongly opposes the 2025 fiscal framework and revenue proposals as tabled by Finance minister Enoch Godongwana. Parliament’s Finance committee held a meeting on Tuesday, where the ANC, ActionSA, and IFP teamed up to support the fiscal framework with strict conditions. The MK Party says the proposed measures in the fiscal framework, […]
# Die GOOD Party sê die Stad Kaapstad het ‘n nuwe skoonmaaktarief ingestel, afsonderlik van inwoners se eiendomsbelasting, en wat onaanvaarbaar is. Statistieke Suid-Afrika se indeks vir residensiële eiendomme vir 2023 toon dat die prys van residensiële eiendomme in die metro sedert 2010 met 141-persent gestyg het. Anton Louw van GOOD sê die nuwe skoonmaaktarief […]
# Die ANC-jeugliga veroordeel wat hy beskryf as misleidende inligting oor ʼn onbetaalde rekening. Volgens berigte het ʼn afvaardiging onder leiding van die jeugliga-president, Collen Malatji, versuim om ʼn rekening van meer as 800-duisend-rand te betaal ná ʼn partyvoorlegging wat afgesluit is met ʼn feestelike onthaal by die Little Tuscany-boetiekhotel in Sandton, Johannesburg. Die jeugliga […]
# Die verregse Franse leier, Marine Le Pen wat skuldig bevind is aan die verduistering van Europese fondse, sê haar skuldigbevinding ontken demokrasie. ʼn Paryse hof het haar verbied om vir vyf jaar ʼn amp te beklee, sy is tot vier jaar tronkstraf gevonnis waarvan twee jaar opgeskort is, en sy is beboet. Le Pen […]
