Author: staff
Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has praised a “pilot project” to solve the problem of municipalities that don’t pay Eskom. The project uses battery storage to lower the cost of electricity at peak times. But will it work?
Shelving the VAT hike hasn’t resolved the question: How should SA raise revenue without deepening inequality? VAT increases hit the most vulnerable hardest. Reforming tax breaks on retirement contributions could be a better solution, say the authors.
As Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana puts final touches to his revised Budget Speech, which will be unveiled on Wednesday, ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has confirmed that the fiscal plans were discussed by the ANC’s top brass and the national working committee.
Zurenah Smit had nothing to do with her husband’s murder, her defence argued in the Western Cape High Court on Monday, fingering State witness Bradley van Eysland as the mastermind who “carefully planned” the farmer’s execution at his farm, Louiesenhof.
Cape Town Mayoral Committee Member for Human Settlements Carl Pophaim has become the latest target of the so-called construction mafia after receiving threats warning him against relaunching the ACSA Symphony Way Housing Project in Delft.
When suspected serial killer Zaheera Boomgaard was arrested, the police seized a pair of blue takkies which were under a coffee table in her home – those same takkies had traces of blood, which belonged to one of her alleged victims, on them.
The R8-billion fund won the five-year category for SA interest-bearing variable term funds at the inaugural FundHub Industry Performance Awards, by only investing in SA government debt and notes issued by the country’s “big five” traditional banks.
The Western Cape High Court had to briefly adjourn on Monday afternoon when Raquel “Kelly” Smith, the mother of missing Joshlin Smith, started crying after hearing her employer Carlyn Zeegers testify that she looked after her three children well.
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) proudly boasts about being a proponent of the Protected Disclosures Act (PDA), but internal documents and anecdotal evidence from employees, past and present, expose a culture of an entity that purges whistleblowers.
While there are still apparent red meat shortages in some Woolworths stores, particularly in Gauteng, the JSE-listed retailer says its affected supplier had resolved its “internal challenges” and been able to start up production again.