With South Africa’s alcohol industry predicting that the current two-week ban on all liquor sales will result in R6.1 billion in lost retail sales, the sector is now lobbing the taxman and effectively the national treasury to defer at least R1.5 billion in related excise tax payments.
A 38-year-old man from Chatsworth in Durban is expected to make his second court appearance on Tuesday for allegedly posting pictures of a woman on a sex website.
Cash strapped motorists will be eager to get to the pumps on Tuesday to fill up their tanks before fuel prices go up at midnight.
He said police decided to retreat and absorb other insults thrown at them to prevent bloodshed, which could have been the result if they had acted recklessly and retaliated with gunfire.
A record 26 485 daily COVID-19 infections were confirmed on Saturday as South Africa battles a third wave of the pandemic.
Calm returned outside former president Jacob Zuma’s homestead in Kwa Zulu Natal following a dramatic twist of events on Saturday when the Constitutional Court agreed to hear an application for a rescission of the contempt of court ruling against him.
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, SAHPRA, has authorised the use of China’s Sinovac vaccine, known as the Coronavac, but with conditions.
South Africa recorded more than 24-thousand new Covid-19 cases on Friday - the highest daily number to date.
Comair has announced that it is temporarily suspending all scheduled kulula.com and British Airways (operated by Comair) flights in South Africa for three weeks.
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