MONDAY, 2.00PM: IT will be at least two years before provinces get the powers to levy the taxes allowed by the Constitution and strongly urged by the Financial and Fiscal Commission, because the South African Revenue Service cannot collect and distribute taxes regionally. Originally, it was expected that legislation controlling such taxation would be in […]
SPECIAL voting for the elections will kick off on Wednesday as part of the general elections set for June 2. The special elections are to be held at South African embassies, consulates, high commissions or missions abroad and at local voting stations for voters who will be out of the country or away from home […]
THE European Union and Rwanda have signed a 68-million-euro finance package deal, according to an EU statement received here on Thursday. The bulk of the package, worth some 66 million euros will take the form of direct budget support and constitutes the EU’s contribution to a structural adjustment plan and the economic reforms undertaken by […]
TEN people were killed and several dozen were wounded when rebels from Sierra Leone attacked a village near Forecariah in southern Guinea at the weekend, Guinean television reported late on Monday. Villagers told television reporters that more than 200 men armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and machetes attacked the village of Tassin on the border […]
SAFETY and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi’s neighbours doubt his capacity to cut crime after 10 of them were recently targetted by criminals, according to a newspaper report on Tuesday. A third of the 30 homes in the Mufamadi’s upmarket Sandton street have in the past seven months been victim to armed robberies, break-ins and an […]
ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe has defended his extensive foreign travel despite economic troubles at home which have caused his trips to be criticised as unnecessary. Mugabe told state media before he left for Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday that the outcry over his trips and claims that they were draining millions of dollars from the cash-strapped […]
A WARRANT has been drawn up for Trevor Tutu, the wayward son of Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for failing to pay a R8000 fine. Tutu could spend a year in jail as a result. He was fined R10000 earlier this year after being convicted for reckless driving, of which R2000 was […]
THE number of civil summonses for debt recorded in the first quarter of the year increased by 12,9%, compared to the same period last year, Statistics South Africa reported on Monday. During March this year, 83258 civil judgments for debt were issued amounting to R725,6-million. The major contributors to the amount were civil judgments relating […]
A HOMEMADE incendiary device was found outside the Pretoria home of Gauteng Freedom Front leader Joseph Chiole at about 6.00am on Tuesday. Seeing the package marked “a gift to General Viljoen”, Chiole drove it to Viljoen’s home. When the package was inspected at 3.30pm on Tuesday an explosive device consisting of a three quarter full […]
MONDAY, 6.30PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange took a hammering on Monday, following the precipitous drop of the rand in after-hours trading on Friday as foreign investors got the jitters on rumours that the rand is to be devalued by the Reserve Bank. The market seems to be led principally by the rand, the repo rate […]