TUESDAY, 03 JUNE 2025, 17:31
An inquest into the controversial death of ANC president-general chief Albert Luthuli in the Pietermaritzburg high court on Friday heard there was contradictory accounts by two eyewitnesses of the incident.
Fixing kilometres of potholes, getting a bullet train between Gauteng and Durban on track, fixing flood-damaged infrastructure, helping regional airports to fly and pushing for port efficiency is on the KwaZulu-Natal transport’s bucket list to grow the province’s economy.
KwaZulu-Natal north coast residents came out in their numbers to demand answers from the KwaDukuza district municipality and oppose a rates hike at a budget imbizo but the mayor and municipal manager were a no-show.
The decision to scrap the proposed VAT increase has raised concerns about where government will generate revenue to fund essential services.
Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts is on Friday hearing a briefing by the Special Investigating Unit on investigations conducted into the Road Accident Fund.
Emerging economies will have to grapple with tighter global financing conditions for longer while the future of risk-free assets is very much in focus, says the head of the central bank.
The ANC is meeting with the DA leadership on Friday and it’s expected to be a heated one over its continued participation in the GNU.
Meetings are due in coming days and weeks to undo the damage after the finance minister caved on the tax increase
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The Democratic Alliance has claimed credit for the about-turn by the treasury on the tax, saying its legal team had presented a strong case against the flawed parliamentary process used to adopt the fiscal framework
News24 apologises to Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie for using the phrase “Send me!” in the headline of a story reporting how more than R800 000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on his trip to the Paris Olympics last year.
The Ukrainian president cut short a trip to South Africa after Russian drone and missile strikes which killed at least eight people and injured about 80
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will cuts short his working visit to South Africa and will return home due to an overnight attack in his country.
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has announced the withdrawal of the proposed VAT increase of 0.5 percentage points.
The government has established an inter-ministerial committee to engage the US following its imposition of 30% tariffs on South African goods.
An ad hoc committee of five Madibeng councillors has yet to conclude its work and report back to council
The finance ministry in a midnight announcement said the decision was informed by consultations with political parties
Represented political parties will get R335 521 000 in the 2025/2026 financial year, courtesy of the taxpayer.
MPs have criticised the costs associated with the SANDF’s military and other parades
Counsel for the EFF told the high court that ActionSA was swindled in an unconstitutional manner to support a VAT hike.
Promoting “the unity of the nation and that which will advance the republic” will inform President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision on who to appoint as South Africa’s next ambassador to the United States.
Pope Francis advanced a world view of inclusion, equality and care for marginalised individuals and groups, said President Cyril Ramaphosa as he offered his condolences on behalf of the government and South Africans to Catholics on the passing of the pontiff.