Month: February 2025
News24 | Google and Meta warned: SA may impose a 10% tariff to protect news industry
The Competition Commission thinks that South Africa should impose a 5% to 10% digital tariff on big tech companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft if they don't take steps to pay media houses fairly for the content they distribute on their sites.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Adriaan Basson | Here’s an idea to cut costs – scrap the provinces
President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Cabinet must think radical about ways to cut expenditure, including changing the current structure of the government, writes Adriaan Basson.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘We want to be number 1 by far’: Prosus looks to benefit from Europe’s hunger for tech champs
Growth-hungry Prosus, the Amsterdam-listed consumer internet subsidiary of Naspers, says it's looking to benefit from a recent mindset shift among Europe's policymakers towards gigantic tech companies.
Continue ReadingNews24 | State Capture 2.0: Mashatile, Creecy push ANC deployment candidate for SAA top job
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy will recommend the worst-performing candidate for the chief executive officer job at South African Airways (SAA) after intervention by Deputy President Paul Mashatile and the ANC's deployment committee.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Dispute over placements at Cape Town school sparks days of protests by parents
The Western Cape Department of Education has denied allegations it closed two schools in Kraaifontein, Cape Town, amid days of protests by parents demanding their children be moved to the newly-built Blue Ridge Primary School.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Welsh rugby’s stirring… and it’s a little nudge to SA’s URC sides
In his latest Rucking with Rob newsletter, Rob Houwing notes a slight revival in fortunes for Welsh rugby.
Continue ReadingNews24 | US stands to lose more from funding cuts than cost of foreign aid, says Prof De Oliveira
As the Trump administration moves to freeze foreign aid, halting vital humanitarian health programmes and medical research trials worldwide, Professor Tulio de Oliveira argues that the United States stands to lose far more from this move than its 1% government investment in foreign aid.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Hand, foot and mouth disease cases in East London rise to 13
Hand, foot and mouth disease cases have risen to 13 in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, the Eastern Cape health department said on Monday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Man arrested in connection with double murder in Wakkerstroom after kids discover mom’s body
Police have arrested a 38-year-old man in connection with the murder of a man and a woman in Wakkerstroom, Mpumalanga.
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