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Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana softened the VAT hike but scrapped tax bracket relief, meaning all taxpayers face higher bills due to bracket creep. With rising sin taxes, unchanged medical credits, and trimmed social grants, many South Africans will feel the pinch.
As she watched “Uncle Bernie” being fingerprinted, cuffed and taken into custody to serve his sentence for what he did to her 40 years ago, a Cape Town woman felt sheer relief – not only for herself, but for the unsuspecting children she believes will now be protected from him.
Professor Robert John Balfour is the eighth Rector and Vice-Chancellor of UWC. He is also the first white person in the post, which is not an insignificance in a country with our racialised history. He tells Anneliese Burgess how he worries about his students and what it means to head the university known as the “home of the left”.
An image, allegedly showing a bridge built without a river, has gone viral worldwide. It has been stripped of its location, with layers of disinformation added along the way. News24 tracked its location to a small Limpopo neighbourhood and found the original tender document debunking the viral claims.
Six bedrooms, six and half bathrooms, and separate guest quarters that are the size of another house – all across 1 600 square metres overlooking the frigid Atlantic Ocean. So, for those in the 1% who want to flaunt it, this Miami Vice /Hollywood A lister-style seaside mansion is just perfect. Or is it?
After Joshlin Smith’s mother, Racquel “Kelly” Smith, received an envelope, allegedly containing R20 000 from a “sangoma” on 18 February last year, the child was to be collected at 14:00 the following day, the State’s key witness, Lourentia “Renz” Lombaard, told the Western Cape High Court.
Former Western Cape Crime Intelligence boss Mzwandile Tiyo, 59, and his co-accused, former police colonel Hildegard Mackier, appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Friday on a slew of charges emanating from a firearm Tiyo allegedly lost in 2023.
The man accused of raping Gauteng businesswoman Andy Kawa in December 2010 testified in the Eastern Cape High Court on Friday that a woman paid him R200 for sex after approaching him at the beach 15 years ago – around the time he is alleged to have raped her.
Parliament’s ethics committee says it is committed to “ensuring accountability of all Members of Parliament” after it found nine MPs, including three deputy ministers and a minister, in breach of the ethics code for failing to disclose their interests on time.
Controversial businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize’s legal team locked horns with the South African Revenue Service (SARS) in an urgent application in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban this week to stop the auction of her football club, Royal AM, but she eventually withdrew her objection to the auction.