Author: staff
While declining inflation and interest rates are positive for households, the reverse is true for pensioners. Since the rate cuts started in September, pensioners have experienced a 9.3% reduction in their interest income, writes Maya Fisher-French.
When M* scrolled through her husband’s phone, looking for evidence of his drug use to explain what she considered erratic behaviour, she didn’t expect to find photos of herself, naked and unconscious with sexual acts being performed on her.
About 65% of Investec’s SA-based wealth and investment unit’s R300bn in assets is invested offshore, a sign its wealthy local client base wants to decouple from domestic risks. But the group says it’s still “constructive” on local equities and bonds.
Just weeks after the United States invited Afrikaners to become refugees, the US Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration has cut off funding to civil society organisations providing services to refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa.
A Pretoria-based group is calling for white South Africans to refrain from “victimhood” and is encouraging unity among black and white South Africans amid US President Donald Trump’s executive order offering to resettle Afrikaner refugees.
Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to reach the frontlines of a global moon race.
The Ukrainian Association of South Africa (UAZA) has called on all countries to take strong, decisive action to ensure Ukraine has ‘the military, economic, and diplomatic support needed to win the war against Russia to secure long-lasting peace’.
President Cyril Ramaphosa apparently put a compromise proposal on the table during a Cabinet meeting last week regarding the VAT increase after his finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, painted a grim picture of how his budget speech would look without it.
In an unprecedented move, which is viewed as a breach of regulations and the Lotteries Act, Parks Tau wrote to all the bidders for the R180 billion lottery licence tender last month, informing them about the extension of the validity period.
South African ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool hopes incoming US chargé d’affaires David Greene’s appointment to Pretoria will provide an opportunity for both nations to “reset” their relationship and engage in more mature and constructive dialogue.