Author: staff

Budget 2.0 aims to stabilise public finances while addressing urgent social needs. This balanced approach, along with potential fiscal anchor discussions, signals a positive outlook for financial markets – if it secures enough support, says Elna Moolman.

Former National Lotteries Commission (NLC) chief operations officer Phillemon Letwaba is challenging the constitutionality of the Special Tribunal’s power to order the freezing and forfeiture of assets deemed to be the proceeds of crime.

eThekwini Municipality’s Deputy Head of Supply Chain Management, who is an accused in the R320 million Durban Solid Waste tender fraud and corruption trial in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court, will challenge his special leave request that the city manager turned down.

SA Revenue Service Commissioner Edward Kieswetter’s plea for more funding has been heard. Over the next three years, SA’s tax authority has been allocated a massive R7.5 billion in extra funding to target the reduction of debt and to modernise its systems.

The Abantu Batho Congress (ABC) president PG Mavundla has filed a complaint against Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Elsja-Marie Bezuidenhout for what he alleges to be the judge’s misconduct in a court case about his removal by the IFP and ANC coalition in the uMvoti municipality, where he was Greytown’s mayor until June 2024.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has balanced the disputed 2025/26 budget by hitting consumers with a 0.5-percentage-point VAT increase for the next two years and squeezing personal income taxpayers by not adjusting tax brackets for inflation.

President Donald Trump’s intervention in negotiations between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf has “significantly bolstered” hopes of reunifying the fractured sport but “hurdles” to a deal remain, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said Tuesday.

Four days after the 2024 disappearance of then-6-year-old Joshlin Smith, her mother told her Grade 1 class teacher that a Nigerian man told her the child was in a container and was on her way to West Africa, the Western Cape High Court has heard.

Ethos Capital’s net asset value per share rose 19.2% to R7.85 in the six-months to end-December 2024 but its JSE-listed share prices is still some 38% below that level despite a raft of actions meant to narrow this gaping discount to the group’s book value.

Growthpoint Properties reported stronger than expected interim distributable income growth on Wednesday, thanks to better performances from its local portfolio, including the office segment, which previously lagged retail and industrial.