Linda Ensor

1 day ago | businesslive.co.za | Linda Ensor |Thando Maeko

The government of national unity (GNU) has been shaken by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s dismissal of the DA’s deputy minister of trade, industry & competition, Andrew Whitfield, for what DA leader and agriculture minister John Steenhuisen believes has no legitimate foundation. He said in the National Assembly on Thursday that the “sudden and ill-considered decision” to dismiss Whitfield had put SA’s future at stake. It was a “calculated assault” on the DA, he added...

1 day ago | businesslive.co.za | Linda Ensor |Thando Maeko

The government of national unity (GNU) has been shaken by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s dismissal of the DA’s deputy minister of trade, industry & competition Andrew Whitfield for what DA leader and agriculture minister John Steenhuisen believes has no legitimate foundation. He said in the National Assembly on Thursday that the “sudden and ill-considered decision” to dismiss Whitfield had put SA’s future at stake. It was a “calculated assault” on the DA, he added. ..

4 days ago | businesslive.co.za | Linda Ensor

NEWS LEADER Business Day TV spoke to David Monyae, associate professor of political science and international relations at the University of Johannesburg

4 days ago | businesslive.co.za | Linda Ensor

Media allegations about conflicts of interest involving the winning bidder of the lottery licence will be investigated, trade industry and competition minister Parks Tau told MPs on Tuesday. Tau also said he would not discount the possibility of going to the next bidder but insisted that he was satisfied that the process of selecting Sizekhaya as the preferred bidder for the eight-year lottery licence was fair and had ticked all the right boxes. ..

4 days ago | businesslive.co.za | Linda Ensor

DEVELOPMENT FUNDING The government is in talks with the French Development Bank (AFD) on a €300m concessional loan, as well as a further loan from the New Development (Brics) Bank, to add to the $1.5bn (R27bn) development policy loan it recently signed with the World Bank.