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1 week ago | 
businesslive.co.za | Thabiso Mochiko |Esa Alexander
The fight against illicit trade is ultimately a fight for our entrepreneurs, for the integrity of our economy and for the future we all want to build, writes Luncedo Mtwentwe.
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2 months ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Jeanette Chabalala |Esa Alexander
The first time the teacher impregnated her, he pressured her into terminating the pregnancy by ingesting rat poison. A Mpumalanga teacher, who sexually assaulted a pupil and impregnated her twice, has been ordered to pay R38,000 in maintenance for the next two years. The order was made by the Nkomazi magistrate's court on Thursday.
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2 months ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Jeanette Chabalala |Esa Alexander
SA's expelled ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool is greeted upon his arrival at Cape Town International Airport on Sunday. Former ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, says SA must fight for its relationship with the US but must also keep its dignity. Rasool arrived back home in Cape Town on Sunday morning with his wife Rosieda and was welcomed by a large number of ANC supporters after his expulsion as ambassador. “It was not our choice to come home but we come home with no regrets.
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2 months ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Sibongile Mashaba |Jeanette Chabalala |Lindile Sifile |Esa Alexander
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his 2025 budget speech in Cape Town on Wednesday. He has announced a revised VAT increase. The government has expanded the basket of zero-rated food items as it increased VAT to 16% by the 2026/27 financial year, but analysts say this hike will drive the prices of essential goods adding strain to households. A 0.5 percentage point increase will be implemented from May this year and another half a percentage point increase effected in April next year.
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2 months ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Koena Mashale |Esa Alexander
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa answers lawmakers' questions at the parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday. President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned AfriForum and Solidarity for "spreading misinformation" about SA in the US, calling their behaviour "unpatriotic". Speaking in parliament on Tuesday during a question-and-answer session, Ramaphosa said a patriot addresses domestic challenges within their country rather than seeking foreign intervention.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Khulekani Magubane |Esa Alexander
South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana leaves after a press conference ahead of his 2025 budget speech in Cape Town, South Africa, February 19, 2025. While finance minister Enoch Godongwana shifted to damage control after parliament held a joint sitting for a budget that was never tabled, signs were present that the budget was bound for uncharted territory from the start of the day.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Koena Mashale |Esa Alexander
South Africa's finance minister Enoch Godongwana attends a press conference ahead of his 2025 budget speech in Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday. Political parties were on Tuesday divided following the cancellation of the inaugural government of national unity's (GNU) budget speech. National assembly speaker Thoko Didiza announced just after 2pm that finance minister Enoch Godongwana would not be delivering the much-anticipated speech.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Koena Mashale |Esa Alexander
The increase would take VAT to 17%. Godongwana on Tuesday afternoon told media, shortly after the unprecedented postponement, that the increase requires the deliberations of the cabinet before it is tabled in the National Assembly. “Cabinet is united in the view that the budget must strike a balance between the interests of the public, economic growth and fiscal sustainability.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Jeanette Chabalala |Esa Alexander
South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana leaves after a press conference ahead of his 2025 budget speech in Cape Town, South Africa, February 19, 2025. The much-anticipated finance minister Enoch Godongwana's budget speech has been cancelled. National Assembly speaker Thoko Didiza announced after 2pm on Wednesday that Godongwana would no longer deliver the speech. "We have decided to adjourn proceedings for a date to be determined by the programming committee," she said.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Mia Malan |Esa Alexander
In 2003, the year in which Pepfar – the US government’s Aids fund which Donald Trump brought to a halt last week – was launched, I moved to Kenya for four years to head up an HIV radio journalism project funded by the American government. The programme, run by the international media development organisation I worked for, was initially funded through democracy and governance money of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID.
