SATURDAY, 26 APRIL 2025, 06:29
China warned a G20 meeting that world economic growth was “insufficient” as tariff and trade wars exacerbated economic and financial instability and sapped growth momentum, its finance ministry and central bank said.
SA the country must move quickly to improve its reading culture to increase the number of pupils who can read for meaning.This is according to Joy Chizu, operations and communications coordinator at the Literacy Association of SA, who spoke to Sowetan as the world marked World Book and Copyright Day on Wednesday.
SA the country must move quickly to improve its reading culture to increase the number of pupils who can read for meaning.This is according to Joy Chizu, operations and communications coordinator at the Literacy Association of SA, who spoke to Sowetan as the world marked World Book and Copyright Day on Wednesday.
In this short documentary, “I Don’t Want to Lose Myself”, we experience 63-year-old Carol de Swardt’s widely publicised assisted suicide in Switzerland.
A woman whose mother, an Andrea Bocelli superfan, missed most of her once-in-a-lifetime experience when she was hospitalised during the Italian tenor’s Cape Town performance, says the ordeal could have been avoided.
Fresh from losing yet another legal bid to force the removal of his corruption prosecutor, Jacob Zuma’s lawyers argue that delays in his trial have resulted in the deaths of “crucial” witnesses – and say the case against him should therefore be quashed.
Tourists are returning to India after a deadly gun attack killed 26 visitors in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been admitted to hospital with a high fever after returning from a two-day visit to Cambodia, a government official said on Friday.
Unions and analysts have welcomed the reversal of the 0.5% value-added tax (VAT) increase but have raised concerns about possible budget cuts to public services, especially with National Treasury estimating a R75bn shortfall over the medium term due to the withdrawal.This follows an announcement made on Thursday morning by Treasury confirming that it would not proceed with the VAT increase...
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.
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana said on Thursday he will not resign after the government’s U-turn on a planned value added tax hike, despite opposition calls for him to quit.
Secretary-general Floyd Shivambu said: “It’s only the MK Party that went to the streets to reject the VAT increase. There is no other political party that went to march against the increase.”
The US state expresses worries that President Donald Trump’s tariffs could stunt future growth.
At four and a half years old, Christopher Els heard the words no child or parent should ever hear: “Your son has acute lymphoblastic leukemia.”
In ‘One Call Away’, Dr Anne Biccard takes readers to the front lines in the emergency department of a busy Johannesburg hospital.
The US justice department is terminating $811m in grants, including some impacting victim service programmes ranging from trauma centres and sign language interpretation for domestic violence victims to police training, according to internal documents and two sources.
These are the key events on day 1,156 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Eskom says generation capacity is being boosted.
National commemorations and events will begin on 5 May with a military procession of 1,300 members of the armed forces.
The Joburg high court has dismissed Mafoko Security Patrollers’ attempt to block former employees from attaching company assets to recover pension funds owed to workers for over five years.
After working for nine years as a security guard, Oscar Nyathi discovered that his employer had shortchanged him of about R70,000 in his pension contributions.