President Cyril Ramaphosa hit back at critics of the national minimum wage, saying that the proposed R20 an hour is just a baseline towards establishing a living wage for workers in South Africa.
Addressing workers at trade union federation Cosatu’s main May Day event in Nelson Mandela Bay on Tuesday, the president admitted the minimum wage is not a living wage.
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Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille has until 3pm on Wednesday to make representations to the Democratic Alliance’s federal executive on why she should be allowed to remain mayor.
De Lille’s submission comes a week after the majority of the DA caucus in Cape Town voted in support of………..
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Consumers already owing R1.37-trillion in debt will feel more heat from higher fuel and toll prices in May, said a debt expert.
Neil Roets, CEO of Debt Rescue, said in a statement that consumers will also have to contend with financial pressures from the 1% VAT increase.
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Resigned Steinhoff chairperson, Christo Wiese, has lodged a claim of R59-billion against Steinhoff International. In a statement released on Thursday afternoon Wiese’s Titan Group, announced that it had served a summons on Steinhoff for the amount which related to investments made into the retailer in 2015 and 2016. In one case, companies in the Titan..
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The Cape Town Democratic Alliance (DA) caucus has supported the motion of no confidence against mayor Patricia De Lille after a three-hour-long caucus, says deputy caucus leader JP Smith.
An internal motion of no confidence against Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille was passed during a …..
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A parliamentary official has been exposed for wasting millions on some rather ridiculous travel costs. Now, he will have to account for himself.
Parliamentary chief Gengezi Mgidlana is in very hot water over a finding that shows him spending R4m of taxpayers’ money on transport. On Friday, the Cape Town High Court dismissed his bid to stop Parliament carrying out a disciplinary hearing.
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Parties failed to reach a wage agreement during a two-day meeting with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA).
Workers initially demanded a 12% increase and employers offered 7%. The workers have since rejected an offer of 8% for the first year, and 8.5% in the second year, instead proposing a 9.5% increase in the first year and 9% for the second.
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Former president Jacob Zuma has appointed lawyers to challenge a cost order worth an estimated R10-million in the state capture court case.
This latest reported appeal by Zuma will come in his personal capacity, after the Pretoria high court…………
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The objections to Eskom’s efforts to claw back almost R67-billion in revenue began in earnest this week as the first round of public hearings into the matter got underway.
But this is not the end of attempts by the power utility to recover money it believes it is owed.
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The North Gauteng High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application by former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe for leave to appeal a ruling that he pay back the part of his pension payout he already received.
Judge Elias Matojane said based on the submission presented to the court “we are of the view that there is no prospect that another court would come to a different conclusion… therefore the leave to appeal is refused.”
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Democratic Alliance federal executive chairperson James Selfe has accused Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille of spreading “alternative facts” to “gain public sympathy”.
Selfe’s utterances on Friday come after De Lille released a statement less than 24 hours earlier, alleging that the………
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The Reserve Bank announcement that the repo rate is reduced by 0.25% is a very slight sugar stroke over other shocks that consumers are going to hit and their living standards will be negative.
Just after Easter week fuel
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The ANC will not support Jacob Zuma in his upcoming corruption trial, but the party’s members can — as long as they don’t wear the party’s regalia.
This is a very different approach from Zuma’s rape trial, as well as initial attempts to lay corruption charges against him, in which he received overwhelming support from ANC structures, with many calling the charges politically motivated.
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The upcoming Jaco Zuma trial looks like it will take years to come to an end. At this stage, it might even take years to get going.
The latest instalment in South Africa’s longest running political soap opera played out dramatically on 16 March when Shaun Abrahams,
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The company that received the Guptas’ Sars VAT payout is closely connected to a company whose R2.2-billion contract with Sars was cancelled in 2016 because one of its shareholders was now suspended Sars commissioner Tom Moyane’s nephew.
In 2016, Moyane’s nephew Nhlamulo Ndhlela was found to have scored a debt collection contract from Sars worth R220-million.
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