Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has been urged not to hike taxes and instead focus on cutting down on the size and cost of government, and privatise state-owned enterprises. Wayne Duvenage, who started Outa as a body to fight road
Technology firm Mustek has reported headline earnings from continuing operations of R54,6m for the six months to 31 December 2015, a slight decline from the R58,2m reported in the same period a year ago. This came on the back
Energy minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson found herself on the wrong side of the political spectrum on Tuesday after she recommended the nuclear programme fall under the independent power producer (IPP) office. The IPP office is a partnership
State security minister David Mahlobo urged parents to keep an eye on what their children were doing on the Internet and social media. ”Have an interest. What is your child doing
I was on a flight – my tenth or twelfth of the year, I forget – so I missed the president’s state of the nation address. In it, the word “broadband” was mentioned only twice, roughly about the same number of mentions it garners every year. “Government,” we were told
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The Films and Publications Amendment Bill, which will be presented in parliament on Tuesday, could outlaw revenge pornography. Communications minister Faith Muthambi and the Film and
Five people convicted for cable theft were on Monday collectively sentenced to 140 years behind bars, Eskom has announced. The group was sentenced in the high court, sitting in Kroonstad. “The thefts occurred mainly in the Free
Instead of announcing tax hikes in his budget speech on Wednesday, finance minister Pravin Gordhan should seek to raise revenue through asset sales, including the sale of “non-strategic liquid assets” such as Telkom, the Democratic Alliance has said
The first Tesla Powerwall in South Africa has been installed in Johannesburg, according to authorised reseller Dako Power. The company plans to gather and use data based on the performance of the initial unit to market the rechargeable