News in South Africa 11th August: 1. Worries over SA being ‘greylisted’: The possibility of South Africa being greylisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) could make doing business with the country even tougher. Rebecca Thomson, a senior associate at Allen & Overy, told CapeTalk that if the country is deemed a high-risk jurisdiction to transact, […]
News in South Africa 10th August: 1. Inflation worsens gender pay gap: Women across the world are feeling the pinch as inflation rockets while the gender pay gap persists. South Africa is ranked at number 123 out of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report for 2022. In South Africa, the issue was pushed firmly back […]
News in South Africa 12th April: 1. 2 New omicron variants: Tulio de Oliveira, who runs gene-sequencing institutions in South Africa, says that scientists in the country have discovered two new sublineages of the omicron coronavirus variant. The lineages have been named BA.4 and BA.5, he said by text message and in a series of […]
News in South Africa 4th April: 1. Petrol hike lower than feared: A stronger rand exchange rate and the government’s decision to intervene on higher costs means South Africa’s ‘record’ petrol price hike this week will be comparatively muted, say economists at the Bureau for Economic Research (BER). The government’s intervention to reduce the general […]
News in South Africa 24th January: 1. Drivers licence crisis: South Africa’s growing driver licence backlog has led to concerns from motorists about what happens when their licence expires and they are not able to receive a new card. Driving licence cards in South Africa are produced by the Driving Licence Card Account (DLCA) – […]
News in South Africa 10th January: 1. Mandatory vaccines take centre stage: Mandatory vaccination policies have taken centre stage in the tertiary education sector as thousands of pupils and staff at these institutions prepare for the start of the 2022 academic year. The University of Western Cape’s (UWC) Student Representative Council (SRC) said anxiety among […]
News in South Africa 26th October: 1. Electricity prices to soar: Eskom has warned that household electricity bills will increase significantly if energy regulator Nersa’s proposals for drastic changes in the way Eskom’s tariffs are determined are accepted. Other stakeholders are equally critical of Nersa’s proposals. Nersa published a discussion paper about its proposals on […]
News in South Africa 12th April: 1. Sugar tax a success: Three years ago South Africa introduced Africa’s first major tax on sugar-sweetened beverages based on grams of sugar. The tax now stands at about 11% of the price per litre. The impact was assessed in recently published research. It was found that the health […]
News in South Africa 15th December: 1. New festive season lockdown restrictions: On Tuesday morning, government gazetted the new regulations for the festive season (until 3 January) that are effective immediately. The new regulations compel all district municipalities to publish on their websites and in the local media information about areas with high infection rates within […]
