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Double tax hike on the cards for South Africa

Today at 07:08 AM, via Daily Investor

The 2026 Budget could see hikes on two taxes in South Africa, presenting risks to the country’s inflation outlook for the rest of the year.

South Africa

Botswana, Zambia highlight importance of regional integration, beneficiation

Yesterday at 22:18 PM, via SAnews

Botswana, Zambia highlight importance of regional integration, beneficiation

Botswana and Zambia have positioned themselves as key partners in Africa’s push for mineral beneficiation, energy security, and regional industrialisation, as leaders from both countries called for deeper cooperation and long-term investment.The two countries said this at Brand South Africa’s Investing...

Education

The Guardian view on student loans: a graduate levy by stealth is no way to fund the NHS | Editorial

Yesterday at 19:25 PM, via The Guardian

By freezing thresholds, Labour is quietly loading the cost of public services on to young graduates, while insisting it has not raised taxes at all

The personal finance expert Martin Lewis upbraided the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, for freezing the threshold at which millions of graduates repay their loans, saying that this was treating student debts like tax. He was right, and Ms Reeves’s...

Education

Schools that cultivate the mind but neglect spiritual education leave children unanchored in a challenging world | Kat Eghdamian

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Young people are hungering for meaning. A lack of spiritual education in childhood can reverberate across a lifetime

Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life

As a parent, I want nothing more than for my children to grow into healthy, happy, purposeful human beings. Yet all around me – in classrooms, in conversation and in alarming...

Science/Tech

Bloisi’s big cleanup

Today at 07:25 AM, via TechCentral

Prosus plans to sell more than $2-billion in non-strategic and underperforming assets this financial year.

Science/Tech

Synthetic opioids may have caused hundreds more UK deaths than thought

Today at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Study find nitazenes, which are up to 500 times stronger than heroin, can degrade significantly in portmortem blood samples

Deaths caused by a synthetic opioid that is hundreds of times stronger than heroin may have been underestimated by up to a third across the UK, according to research.

Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioids that are extremely potent, and up to 500 times stronger than...