Domestic

Equitable share allocations to provinces are down R14.9 billion from what was forecast in the 2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), according to the 2016 budget review, released on Wednesday. The reduced allocations was as a result of

The impact of the nation’s drought featured prominently in South African Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan’s Budget speech on Wednesday, with many mentions of government’s response and praise for those looking to lessen the

Smokers and boozers will be reaching deeper into their pockets from Wednesday as Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced that taxes on wine, beer, spirits and cigarettes would continue to rise above the rate of inflation. The excise duties on

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan slashed South Africa’s growth forecast for the year to 0.9 percent of GDP as he tabled an annual budget on which the country has pinned hopes of preventing a credit rating downgrade to junk status. “The

South Africans will be spared increases in personal income tax this April, but Treasury proposes increases in the fuel levy, environmental taxes and excise duties to raise much-needed additional revenue in the next financial year. “We have

JOHANNESBURG, February 24 (ANA) – The Department of Higher Education and Training has called for “decisive action” to tackle unrest at universities and has warned that it will not tolerate the “destruction of property and

The application for leave to appeal by convicted Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir and his five co-accused was on Wednesday postponed by the south Gauteng High Court. Krejcir, who represented himself during sentencing, was on Tuesday sentenced to 35

PARLIAMENT, February 23 (ANA) – The controversial Expropriation Bill, which sets out the legislative requirements for the State to lay claim to land, was passed by the National Assembly on Tuesday. While the biggest opposition parties

A 50-year-old Cape Town woman has denied kidnapping a three-day-old Zephany Nurse from Groote Schuur hospital nearly nineteen years ago and then raising her as her own. The Lavender Hill woman, who cannot be named by order of the court to protect