Five Newsworthy Things in SA 14th November 2023:

News in South Africa 14th November: 1. SARS needs funds: The South African Revenue Service (SARS) will soon run out of ways to collect more taxes as tax hikes are not an option, and the factors limiting the country’s tax revenue are outside the service’s control. This is feedback from Deloitte Africa’s tax controversy leader, […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 26th September 2023:

News in South Africa 26th September: 1. Storms flood Western Cape: Heavy rains and winds battered the Western Cape on Sunday and Monday, forcing hundreds of families to flee their flooded homes. In Covid Village in Mfuleni, a man died, apparently electrocuted by a live wire in the water. About 2 000 families fled their […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 11th August 2023:

News in South Africa 11th August: 1. SA R500 billion in debt: South Africa will need to borrow R500 billion over the next year, or R2 billion per weekday on average, to fund its current fiscal deficit and refinance maturing debt. This increases the risk of investing in the country and increases borrowing costs for […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 9th June 2023:

News in South Africa 9th June: 1. South Africa risks losing R613 billion: South Africa stands to lose as much as $32.4 billion in export revenue, almost a 10th of its gross domestic product, should some of its main trading partners retaliate against its unwillingness to take a stance against Russia’s war in Ukraine. “Together, […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 15th September 2022:

News in South Africa 15th September: 1. 8.5mil vaccines to be destroyed: The government plans to destroy 8.5 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by pharmaceutical company Pfizer at the end of October. This, some experts said, casted a damning spotlight on how South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign had missed the mark. The situation […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 20th January 2022:

News in South Africa 20th January: 1. Vape industry targeted: National Treasury published a discussion paper on the intended taxation of electronic nicotine and non-nicotine delivery systems – vaping products – on December 15 last year, following the heads-up given by the Minister of Finance in the 2021 February Budget. The government had signalled its intention to start […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 3rd September 2021:

1. Government to review lockdown: The government is reviewing South Africa’s lockdown restrictions on a weekly basis and is encouraged by the declining number of Covid-19 cases seen in the country, says health minister Joe Phaahla. Addressing media on Friday (3 September), Phaahla said an analysis would be conducted by the health department and the […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 21st April 2021:

News in South Africa 21st April: 1. Cape Town fires incur massive losses: The University of Cape Town (UCT) is without doubt the greatest victim of the Rhodes Memorial fire, though all staff and students escaped without harm. Western Cape government spokesperson James-Brent Styan said on Tuesday that six buildings on the UCT campus were […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 23rd March 2021:

News in South Africa 23rd March: 1. Government vaccine rollout too slow: The private sector is getting impatient with government’s slow rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine, with many attempting – and failing – to secure their own doses for employees and their families, meeting with a lot of red tape. Government has managed to only […]

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