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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansFailure by local government to provide basic services has led to protests around South Africa. Now, some residents are resorting to self-help. EFE-EPA/Kim Ludbrook In December 2020, the High Court in Mahikeng, the capital of South Africa’s North West Province, made a controversial order after finding that the Kgetlengrivier Local ...
Taxpayers will be relieved following the outlining of the 2021/22 budget speech by the Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni on Wednesday. In his speech, Mboweni said the Treasury will rollout the Covid-19 vaccination programme without relying on tax increases. He said the money for the vaccination programme will be provided through fu...
The township of Mabopane, north of Pretoria is like any other township in South Africa. The area was proclaimed in 1959 as a township and incorporated to Bophuthatswana in 1977. Today the population of the area is fast approaching 200 000 residents and is blighted by poverty and high unemployment. For the last 3 years, I have been lead...
Employment and Labour Minister Thembelani Thulas Nxesi has announced that the National Minimum Wage (NMW) for each ordinary hour worked has been increased from R20,76 to R21,69 for the year 2021 with effect from 01 March 2021. The NMW legislation in South Africa came into effect on 01 January 2019 at a level of R20 per hour. In terms...
On 24 February 2021 the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni delivered his 2021/22 budget speech in Parliament. Unlike his previous speeches in the House of Assembly, Mboweni broke rank with the analogy of the Aloe vera plant as a symbol of the South African economy. Perhaps the minister did this to emphasise the dire economic reality fac...
The results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the fourth quarter of 2020 show that the number of employed persons increased by 333 000 to 15,0 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, and the number of unemployed persons als...
A Johannesburg-based entrepreneur is using the power of technology to disrupt the home improvement services sector and in the process enable Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) building contractors to access a premium market that has been...