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Public wage bill a major issue for Mboweni, trade unions ahead of Budget speech
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has made no secret of his intention to slash the bill, which tripled between 2007 and 2019.
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Concerns over SA's fiscal cliff raised ahead of Mboweni's Budget speech
The fiscal cliff study group first warned of the danger several years ago. It defines the fiscal cliff as the point that is reached when public servants’ wages, social grant payments and debt-service costs soak up all government revenue.
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Peters: I was aware trains bought during Montana’s tenure were too tall
Former Transport Minister Dipuo Peters said she believed Montana was bluffing when he resigned as CEO and that’s why he was fighting to be reinstated.
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Creecy heads to court to set aside awarding small-scale fishing rights in WC
Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy's decision follows multiple complaints from small scale fishers about the fairness and accuracy of the process.
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Lucky Montana was bluffing when he resigned as Prasa CEO, Peters tells Zondo
Former minister Dipuo Peters said that she attended a meeting called by former President Jacob Zuma where Montana’s reinstatement was discussed.
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Rescued vegetables allay South Africa's virus-linked hunger
Days earlier, the cabbage and pumpkin on her plate were strewn in a pile of discards from South Africa's largest fresh produce market, waiting to be incinerated.
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Boeing calls for grounding of some 777s after Denver engine fire
United, Asiana and Japan's two main airlines confirmed they had already suspended operations of 63 planes fitted with the same family of engine which scattered debris over Denver on Saturday.
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Debt, COVID-19 financial woes threaten to end dreams of thousands of students
Many students don't qualify for NSFAS funding and Universities South Africa's CEO Ahmed Bawa said there needed to be more assistance for the so-called missing middle.
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PAC rallies behind Saftu’s planned national strike on Wednesday
Saftu will embark on industrial action on Wednesday in response to a number of economic challenges facing the country.
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CT Tourism hopeful vaccine rollout means more people will be open to travel
The industry body said the city has lost up to R2 billion as a result of heightened lockdown restrictions ushered in over the December holiday period.
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Zondo not buying Daniels didn’t have power to advise board on Tegeta prepayment
She was been testifying before the state capture commission on Friday on a R1.68 billion coal purchase prepayment.
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Daniels says Koko misled Zondo Inquiry over prepayment to Optimum Coal Mine
Suzanne Daniels said while Matshela Koko instructed her to draft a board resolution to prepay the Optimum Coal Mine R1.68 billion, he didn’t specifically say ‘issue a guarantee’ - yet it was eventually done.
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COVID lockdown: CT tourism lost almost R2bn & 12k jobs during Dec holidays
The city’s official tourism body released a report on Friday detailing that just under 12,000 job losses were also recorded over this time as a result of tighter lockdown rules introduced on 28 December.
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WATCH LIVE: Former Eskom head of legal Suzanne Daniels testifies before Zondo
On Friday Eskom's former head of legal and compliance, Suzanne Daniels, testified at the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture.
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SA ready to make hydrogen fuel cells as alternative energy source - Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the move followed more than a decade of work by the government and partners in the private sector and academia to develop the technology for both hydrogen fuel cells and lithium battery storage.
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CoJ officials to meet with Alex residents over illegal electricity connections
On Thursday residents barricaded the main entrance of the area, forcing City Power to abandon its operation intended to cut operators.
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Bitcoin goldrush sparks fears of speculative bubble
The unit blasted past $50,000 on Tuesday following a week in which Tesla invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin and vowed customers could use it to buy vehicles and both New York bank BNY Mellon and credit card titan MasterCard announced plans to support bitcoin.
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Facebook inflated its advertising audiences: lawsuit
The suit argued that Facebook made a deliberate decision not to remove duplicate or fake accounts from the Potential Reach tool metrics.
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SA must develop its own vaccines, says President Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the country couldn't afford to find itself travelling the world looking for a vaccine.
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SAA was denied request to fetch J&J vaccine due to lack of safety details
The Aviation Authority said it denied SAA's initial request to take to the sky on Sunday due to SAA's failure to provide adequate details on safety mitigation measures for the crew deck.
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City Power abandons illegal connection cuts after Alex residents protest
The area is known for illegal connections and City Power said it had to act since stealing cables ultimately cost the utility millions of rands.
