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Pollution threatens to overwhelm the country’s water supply systems
By: Natasha Odendaal 14th March 2025 As many regions across South Africa, including the City of Johannesburg and eThekwini, continue to grapple with significant water supply challenges... →
South African Communist Party initial response to the budget delivered on Wednesday, 12 March 2025
13th March 2025 Objection to VAT increases The South African Communist Party (SACP) strongly objects to the government’s decision to implement 0.5-percentage point... →
Budget 2025: A blend of social, economic and coalition realities
13th March 2025 The budget tabled by Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana today should be regarded as a relatively pragmatic 11-month holding job ahead of a... →
SA: Enoch Godongwana: Address by Finance Minister: 2025 Budget Speech, Parliament, Cape Town (12/03/2025)
13th March 2025 The delay has stimulated an unprecedented level of public debate about the difficult policy trade-offs we, as a nation, face. A vital debate about... →
NUM worried about ‘possible bloodbath of job losses’ on multiple fronts
By: Darren Parker 12th March 2025 The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is worried about a “possible bloodbath of job losses” across multiple sectors, including steel,... →
South Africa’s state-owned entities are flagging – how innovation, research and development could revive them
12th March 2025 South Africa has about 700 State-owned enterprises. They operate across sectors like transport, energy and public utilities, and some are among the... →
South Africa can return to being global ferroalloy hub, ARM’s Andre Joubert reiterates 
By: Martin Creamer 11th March 2025 South Africa has extensively tested highly convincing home-grown smelting technology that has the potential to re-establish this country as a... →
Ramaphosa calls for agri growth agenda biased toward empowering black farmers 
By: Marleny Arnoldi 10th March 2025 While agriculture has been a mainstay of growth in South Africa’s economy over the last three decades, the industry cannot be sustainable without... →
