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MONDAY, 22 DECEMBER 2025, 23:09

Business

South Africans are paying more tax than ever before

Today at 16:00 PM, via BusinessTech

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana says that South Africa’s tax to GDP ratio is the highest it has ever been, with taxpayers struggling under the worst tax burden on record.

Business

Huge blow to Eskom’s ‘secret’ R54 billion deal

Today at 14:49 PM, via BusinessTech

The ‘secret’ R54 billion settlement deal between power utility Eskom and energy regulator Nersa has been nixed by the High Court, until the public has been sufficiently consulted.

Education

New York school board investigates wooden ‘timeout’ box allegations

Today at 22:00 PM, via The Guardian

Governor calls accusations that students with disabilities may have been confined in boxes ‘highly disturbing’

A school district board in upstate New York is investigating school officials amid accusations that the district may have confined elementary school students inside wooden “timeout” boxes.

Images of the boxes, which resemble tiny padded cells, first spread on social media last week,...

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 22 December 2025

Today at 22:25 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

Accommodating Emerging Giants in the Global Economy

Today at 22:42 PM, via Slashdot

Abstract of a paper featured on NBER: How has aggregate income and welfare in the United States been affected by globalization and rapid productivity growth in emerging economies? We use the class of constant elasticity trade models to provide quantitative evidence on these questions. We find that reductions in worldwide trade frictions over the period from 1960-2020 reduced the share of the...

Science/Tech

Australian Eateries Turn To Automatic Tipping as Cost of Doing Business Climbs

Today at 22:05 PM, via Slashdot

Australian restaurants facing a mounting cost-of-doing-business crisis are turning to automatic service charges as a way to shore up revenue. The practice is legal under Australian consumer law as long as customers are notified beforehand and can opt out, but it risks alienating diners in a country where tipping has traditionally been optional. Wes Lambert, chief executive of the Australian...

Health

Living and Light

Yesterday at 19:40 PM, via BBC News

Illuminating new science on artificial light and our health.

Health

What Is ‘Functional Freeze’?

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via New York Times

The term has been popularized on social media to describe numbness and low motivation. Experts offer ways to break out of these feelings.