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2 months ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Tim Cocks |Shafiek Tassiem
19 February 2025 - 13:29 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Under the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act, SA receives tariff-free quotas on agricultural exports including beef, wine, citrus, soybeans and sugar cane. Stock photo.
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2 months ago | 
bizcommunity.com | Sandiso Phaliso |Tori Newby |Shafiek Tassiem |Wendell Roelf
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The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure says it has complied with all the orders of the High Court regarding the eviction of the Khoi-San occupation at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
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2 months ago | 
bizcommunity.com | Shafiek Tassiem |Esa Alexander |Lindsey Schutters
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Premier Alan Winde officially handed over the structural engineering findings from the independent investigation into the 6 May 2024 George building collapse to Western Cape Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Thembisile Patekile and Captain Johan de Lange of the South African Police Service (SAPS) last week.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | John Yeld |Shafiek Tassiem |Tim Cocks
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But environment minister and bird conservation groups both say an out-of-court settlement is yet possible. African Penguins at Boulders Beach in Cape Town. Archive photo: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp Environmental groups are litigating against the government and a fishing industry group because of concerns over the survival of the African Penguin.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
dfa.co.za | Shafiek Tassiem |Esa Alexander
South African scientists this week unveiled a fragment of what they described as a motorcycle-sized meteorite that was discovered in a town in the Eastern Cape last month. By Shafiek Tassiem and Esa AlexanderGQEBERHA – South African scientists this week unveiled a fragment of what they described as a motorcycle-sized meteorite that was discovered in a town in the country’s Eastern Cape province last month.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
businesslive.co.za | Shafiek Tassiem |Esa Alexander
Local scientists on Tuesday unveiled a fragment of what they described as a motorcycle-sized meteorite that was found in Nqweba in the Eastern Cape in August. Residents in the provinces of the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Free State reported seeing a bright blue-white and orange streak of light in the sky on August 25, which was accompanied by an explosive sound and vibrations, the scientists said.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | John Yeld |Shafiek Tassiem |Tim Cocks
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New minister wants to settle case brought by conservation groups. African penguins, photographed here in Simon’s Town, could be extinct as soon as 2035, according to BirdLife South Africa and Sanccob (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds).
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | John Yeld |Shafiek Tassiem |Tim Cocks
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New model forms the basis for an urgent recommendation to change African Penguin’s conservation status from endangered to critically endangered. A cleaned African Penguin swimming at Sanccob's Rietvlei centre in 2018. Photos: John Yeld / GroundUpOn 23 June 2000, when – like now – Cape Town was in the icy grip of mid-winter, South Africa suffered what was called the world’s worst coastal seabird environmental disaster.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Shafiek Tassiem |Esa Alexander |Lindsey Schutters |Katja Hamilton
The Western Cape is on the verge of an affordable housing crisis, with Premier Alan Winde admitting in a political debate earlier this year that 600,000 residents are still on the waiting list to receive government housing. He shared that this backlog has been compounded by issues of ongoing semigration, with 150,000 people migrating to the province every year in search of better economic prospects in the Western Cape.
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May 20, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Nqobile Dludla |Joe Bavier |Shafiek Tassiem |Esa Alexander
The signing of the NHI Bill by President Cyril Ramaphosa last week triggered a sharp decline in the shares of South African medical insurers, including Discovery, Momentum Metropolitan Holdings, Sanlam, and Old Mutual. This market reaction on the Tuesday – the day prior to the ratification - underscores the opposition from the business sector towards Ramaphosa's decision. Discovery, in particular, witnessed its most significant drop since March, plummeting by 7.4%.
