# Parliament’s Ethics Committee has fined deputy president Paul Mashatile ten-thousand-rand for failing to disclose a diamond gift received by his wife from diamond investment scam businessman Louis Liebenberg, in the confidential section of his financial interests register. The complaint was formally received on 5 March. The committee determined that the valuable item should have […]
# Die DA sê Suid-Afrika ondervind ‘n dubbele ekonomiese slag met dreigende tariefverhogings sowel as beperkte toegang tot Taiwan se halfgeleier-elektroniese skyfies. Die party beskuldig die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola, omdat hy Taiwan se sending na Suid-Afrika afgradeer het, en waarsku dat sleutelnywerhede soos motorvervaarding, wat swaar op hierdie skyfies staatmaak, […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank het die terugkoopkoers van môre af tot sewe-persent verlaag, net ure voor die Amerikaanse president Donald Trump se verwagte aankondiging van ‘n tarief van 30-persent op Suid-Afrikaanse goedere. Die president van die Reserwebank, Lesetja Kganyago, het verswakkende sake- en verbruikersvertroue met inflasie op drie-persent as redes aangegee. Alhoewel voedselpryse styg, is […]
# Die MK-party verwerp die Konstitusionele Hof se besluit om hom regstreekse toegang te weier in sy aansoek om die aanstelling van ‘n Wits-professor, Firoz Cachalia, as waarnemende minister van Polisie en die spesiale verlof van die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, uit te daag. Die party beskryf die uitkoms as ‘n bespotting van geregtigheid […]
# The South African Reserve Bank has reduced the repo rate to seven-percent, effective tomorrow, just hours before US president Donald Trump’s expected announcement of a 30-percent tariff hike on South Africa. Reserve Bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago, cited weakening business and consumer confidence, with inflation at three-percent. While food prices are rising, inflation expectations remain […]
# The DA says South Africa is facing a double economic blow – looming US tariffs and restricted access to Taiwanese semiconductor chips. The party blames International Relations and Cooperation minister Ronald Lamola for downgrading Taiwan’s mission in South Africa, warning that this could threaten key industries like automotive manufacturing, which relies heavily on these […]
# Hoofregter Mandisa Maya het hulde gebring aan die waarnemende adjunkhoofregter Mbuyiseli Madlanga, wat vandag, ná 17 jaar aftree. Maya het tydens ‘n spesiale sitting in die Konstitusionele Hof Madlanga se intellektuele bekwaamheid, nederigheid en sy impak op die regslandskap in Suid-Afrika geprys. Sy beklemtoon Madlanga se toewyding aan transformasie en geregtigheid en beskryf hom […]
# Die DA-woordvoerder oor Finansies, Mark Burke, sê die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau het slegs ure om ‘n handelsooreenkoms met Amerika te sluit voordat tariewe van 30-persent in werking tree. Burke beskuldig Tau daarvan dat hy aansporings voorstel wat met belastingbetalersgeld befonds sal word, in stede daarvan om kritieke ooreenkomste te […]
# The MK Party has rejected the Constitutional Court’s decision to deny it direct access in its challenge of the appointment of Wits professor Firoz Cachalia as acting Police minister and the special leave of Police minister Senzo Mchunu. They described the outcome as a travesty of justice, claiming courts are interfering with police work. […]
