Siyanda Mthethwa

2 weeks ago | theherald.co.za | Colleen Goko |Siyanda Mthethwa |Rodrigo Campos |Nic Bothma

The drawn-out budget saga was a painful episode for finance minister Enoch Godongwana and the government of national unity, its first significant attempt at a governing coalition in the country's 30-year history as a multiracial democracy. For investors, the spectacle of President Cyril Ramaphosa's fraught Oval Office encounter with US counterpart Donald Trump was little more than a sideshow.

2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Tim Cocks |Nellie Peyton |Siyanda Mthethwa |Milan Pavicic

SA has one of the world’s highest murder rates, with an average of 72 a day, in a country of 60-million people. Most victims are black. SA police recorded 26,232 murders nationwide in 2024, of which 44 were linked to farming communities. Of those, eight of the victims were farmers. The Western Cape High Court ruled that claims of white genocide were “clearly imagined and not real” in a case earlier this year, forbidding a donation to a white supremacist group on those grounds.

3 weeks ago | reuters.com | Colleen Goko |Siyanda Mthethwa

JOHANNESBURG, May 16 (Reuters) - Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana returns to parliament on May 21 for a third try at passing South Africa's budget, after disputes with coalition partners over plans to increase tax scuppered two previous attempts. Godongwana has to plug a 75 billion rand ($4.1 billion) revenue hole created by his decision to backtrack on raising value-added tax (VAT) while trying to stay the course on debt stabilisation. Sign up here.

3 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Mark Porter |Nqobile Dludla |David Evans |Siyanda Mthethwa

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Tiger Brands, South Africa's biggest food producer, on Monday offered to compensate listeriosis victims, marking a major step toward resolving class action after a 2017 outbreak that killed about 200 people and sickened more...