Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has announced hard-hitting increases in personal income tax of R16.5bn for 2017-18‚ as economic growth stutters and revenue collection falls short of expectations. These increases are part of a total R28bn package of tax hikes. Tax revenue has deteriorated by a further R7bn since the medium-term budget[…]
The High Court in Pretoria has ruled that government’s decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was unconstitutional and invalid. Deputy Judge President Phineas Mojapelo said President Jacob Zuma and the ministers of justice and international relations are ordered to revoke the notice of withdrawal. During the hearing[…]
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has insisted that everyone will be paid their grant come April 1, despite telling MPs that her department would not be able to make the deadline on finding a new service provider. This, she told Parliament on Wednesday, was despite the fact that the South[…]
The assault case against the ANC’s Western Cape secretary Faiez Jacobs is expected to resume in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. The ANC’s national disciplinary committee found him guilty of assault in April 2016, following an altercation with former ANC employee, Wesley Seale, at the ANC’s provincial offices[…]
Non-profit organisation Reclaim the City on Tuesday hung out “laundry” during the debate on the Western Cape State of the Province Address (SOPA), to object to the lack of inner city housing. “No deal on Tafelberg”, “land for the people not for profit” and “Is the provincial property committee broken?”[…]
The 2016 student protests during the Fees Must Fall movement have the youth wanting Treasury to put more money into education. The youth have differing views on where the money should go, but they agree that education should be a priority in Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s Budget Speech on Wednesday[…]
It was a cataclysmic loss among many during World War I. On the foggy early morning of February 21, 1917, in the channel between Britain and France, a British steamship accidentally rammed the smaller SS Mendi, sinking the vessel in about 20 minutes and killing more than 600 southern African[…]
A year after President Jacob Zuma began feuding with his Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan over control of the nation’s purse strings, the conflict appears to be coming to a head. When he presents his annual budget in Parliament on Wednesday, Gordhan will seek to keep state spending in check and[…]
The Fees Commission says it is on track to meet its extended deadline of June 30. The Commission resumed public hearings after a week-long break. Academics, researchers and private sector organizations are expected to make their submissions. The commission established by President Jacob Zuma, is probing the feasibility of free[…]
The Western Cape High Court will on Monday begin hearing the case of Australian mining company Tormin, which is accused of large scale environmental destruction in the province. The Department of Environmental Affairs had previously attempted to hold Tormin criminally responsible for transgressing environmental laws. Tormin’s mining operations are alleged[…]
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