Author: staff

With inflation squeezing wallets, supply chains under strain, and retailers focused on their bottom lines, door-busting discounts are becoming scarce. The best deals aren’t guaranteed to show up on a single day anymore, writes Chriszelle Joseph.

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba has brought in some of the country’s top minds – including retired Judge Ian Farlam – to review the way the Anglican Church in South Africa handled warnings it received about former UK barrister and church member John Smyth, now accused of horrific acts of abuse of young boys.

With his leadership under unprecedented scrutiny since the foundation of the EFF 11 years ago, Julius Malema laid down the law to the party’s delegates ahead of its elective conference, or National People’s Assembly as the red berets call it, next month.

Developing countries have responded with fury to the rich world’s $250-billion year offer of financial support to deal with the impact of climate change, an amount that falls far short of the $1.3 trillion that poorer countries had proposed.

Mamelodi Sundowns and Magesi FC might have travelled hundreds of kilometres to the Toyota Stadium, where they will square off in the Carling Knockout final on Saturday night, but such is the loyalty of the Bloemfontein crowd that both teams will feel at home. 

The lawyer who investigated suspended attorney Steven Kuselo Gqeba’s finances has told the Legal Practice Council (LPC) that a disciplinary committee’s decision to acquit him of misappropriation – despite the disappearance of a R15 million settlement – was “astounding”.

Within minutes of reading the provisions in the contentious National Health Insurance Act for a payroll tax and a surcharge on personal income tax to fund the NHI, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi denied that taxes would be raised to fund the universal health coverage scheme.

The owner of the technology that makes prepaid electricity meters work has disputed Eskom’s claim that users whose meters have not been updated in time, and who run out of credit, will need a meter replacement – a penalty Eskom has priced at R12 000.

Within minutes of reading the provisions in the contentious National Health Insurance (NHI) Act for a payroll tax and a surcharge on personal income tax to fund the NHI, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi denied that taxes would be raised to fund the universal health coverage scheme.

JSE-listed printing group Novus Holdings, which recently announced a bid for ICT firm Mustek and acquired three divisions from Media24, announced a climb in interim profit after it bounced back from the effects of elevated paper prices.