Day: October 30, 2024
News24 | Medium-term budget: Two-pot yields R7bn in tax within weeks – but it’s not enough
The Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement shows that tax income has been disappointing this year.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Medium-term budget in a nutshell: Meh
Treasury cut its growth expectation for the current year and, contrary to expectation, increased its projected budget deficit from 4.5% to 5% of GDP - mostly due to disappointing tax income.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘No part of her body was spared’: Hefty sentence for man who hacked ex to death on her 21st birthday
A Western Cape man who brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend on her birthday has been sentenced to two life terms behind bars for rape and murder. The accused confessed that he had planned to kill her, when he dragged her out of the house into an...
Continue ReadingNews24 | Mulder magic grinds Bangladesh in Chattogram heat before bowlers leave Tigers in tatters
Bouyed by Wiaan Mulder's maiden Test ton that pushed South Africa to 575/6, the Proteas bowlers left Bangladesh's batting in tatters at 38/4 at the end of a sapping second day's play in Chattogram.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Medium-term budget: Conservative growth estimates, surprise rise in deficit
Treasury has made moderate upward revisions to the economic growth outlook over the next three years.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Medium-term budget: No top-up for education as Godongwana says any crisis is ‘self-inflicted’
There was no top-up allocation for provincial education departments in Wednesday's Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Lesufi scores Gauteng government two out of 10 for crime prevention
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has conceded that his government is failing in crime prevention and scored himself a two out of 10.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Taiwan says SA is ready to negotiate its Pretoria office but SA still isn’t talking publicly
Taipei has suggested it may not be kicked out of its Pretoria offices in November after all. But if anything has changed, South Africa isn't saying so.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Controversial England prop Marler calls for ‘ridiculous’ All Blacks haka to be binned
England prop Joe Marler has controversially suggested that the All Blacks' haka should be 'binned', calling it ridiculous ahead of the two nations' showdown at Twickenham on Saturday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Castle of Good Hope eviction ‘is happening soon’, says Cape Town mayor
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the eviction of a group of homeless people living outside the Castle of Good Hope in the CBD is imminent.
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