The South African Social Security Agency received a roasting by parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday over R1,1bn in irregular expenditure in 2015/2016. Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza was in attendance
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The ANC is calling on parliament to accelerate the implementation of the resolution for the establishment of a media appeals tribunal following the suspension of The Citizen editor Steve Motale, it said in a statement. “It is starkly clear that the people
British public broadcaster, the BBC, plans to launch a “Netflix of the spoken word” to take its radio content beyond the UK. Director-general Tony Hall in a London speech on Wednesday said that the BBC plans to offer all of its audio content, in addition to its BBC
An attempt by two musicians’ rights groups, and Jimmy Manyi’s Decolonisation Foundation, to throw legal weight behind Hlaudi Motsoeneng failed in the Western Cape high court on Wednesday. The SA Musicians Association and the Independent Music
Government cannot sit by and watch banks close people’s accounts “willy nilly”, said President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday in parliament. He was responding to questions from MPs when he was asked to elaborate on an inter-ministerial commission which looked
South Africa’s decision to stall plans championed by President Jacob Zuma to build nuclear plants has exposed his waning authority. News of the delay came on Tuesday when the department of energy said additional atomic power won’t come on stream
Cairo has this year surpassed South Africa’s business hub, Johannesburg, as being Internet ride-sharing service Uber’s biggest and busiest African city. This is according to Uber’s head of operations for Europe, Middle
Two years ago, Oppo and Vivo couldn’t crack the top five in China’s smartphone market. Now they outrank everyone after elbowing Apple aside, thanks to people like Cheng Xiaoning. Cheng runs a thriving electronics store in the rural town of Miaoxia, tapping into her
South African policy makers will probably leave interest rates steady on Thursday without calling an end to the rate-hike cycle as uncertainty from Donald Trump’s election as US president to local political turmoil keeps the rand volatile. Inflation that’s slowed from a peak of 7% in
The rand extended gains, strengthening the most among global currencies after the South African government said it would delay a plan to build new nuclear power plants, allaying concern that the cost of the program would strain