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/ 11 February 2009
Government expenditure in recreation and culture will decrease by more than 18% a year over the next three years.
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/ 11 February 2009
Finance minister Trevor Manuel outlined in his budget speech on Wednesday a multimillion-rand plan to assist the country’s struggling motor industry.
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/ 11 February 2009
A witness testifying in the Lucky Dube murder trial contradicted a statement given to police, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 11 February 2009
Trevor Manuel announced during his budget speech on Wednesday that the government will be spending R5,4-billion in the fight against crime.
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/ 11 February 2009
One million more voters have registered to vote than the original 22-million expected, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said on Wednesday.
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/ 11 February 2009
Proposed adjustment to the personal income tax schedules will provide relief of R13,6-billion to individual taxpayers, Manuel announced on Wednesday.
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/ 11 February 2009
The child support grant could soon be extended to children up to the age of 18 after the emergence of ”compelling new evidence”, Manuel said.
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/ 11 February 2009
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s budget on Wednesday preached his age-old message of prudent fiscal policy, efficiency and sustainability.
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/ 11 February 2009
ANCYL leader Julius Malema criticised Education Minister Naledi Pandor on Wednesday for not taking action on the TUT salary dispute.
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/ 11 February 2009
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday that the Soccer World Cup will be one of the sources of output growth improvement in 2010.
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/ 11 February 2009
Najwa Petersen on Wednesday escaped a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder of her husband Taliep, but was effectively jailed for 28 years.
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/ 11 February 2009
An urgent application to interdict President Kgalema Motlanthe from proclaiming the election date was struck off the roll in court on Wednesday.
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/ 11 February 2009
Evidence from an identity parade with the three men accused of killing Lucky Dube, is admissible, the Johannesburg High Court ruled on Wednesday.
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/ 11 February 2009
Three children died and four were seriously injured when the bakkie taking them to school plummeted off the R55 in Centurion on Wednesday morning.
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/ 11 February 2009
Kgalema Motlanthe on Tuesday announced the elections will be held on April 22 2009, but there is a court application to delay voting.
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/ 11 February 2009
An independent investigation will be conducted into SAA’s chief Khaya Ngqula and his executive team, the board of directors said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 February 2009
The national budget for 2009/10 could be Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s toughest since 1996 and could also be his last, according to Colen Garrow.
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/ 11 February 2009
BidVest Wits head coach Roger de Sa has set his players a target of seven points from their three Absa Premiership fixtures this month.
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/ 11 February 2009
Manufacturing output in South Africa plummeted 7,0% year-on-year in December from the previous month’s revised 6,4%.
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/ 11 February 2009
Sex with multiple partners is so entrenched in Southern Africa that it is a religion, a basic moral philosophy for most people here.
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/ 11 February 2009
Provincial health budgets are in the red, and are putting Trevor Manuel under intense pressure to ride to the rescue in his budget today.
Instead of spouting more platitudes, perhaps Kgalema Motlanthe could spit it straight in his State of the Nation address.
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/ 11 February 2009
Make sure your final wishes will be carried out in a simple, practical manner.
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/ 11 February 2009
Greenies should approve Manuel’s environmental fiscal reforms, which include incentives for efficient energy use and clean development projects.
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/ 11 February 2009
The successful track record of the soon to be disbanded Scorpions was confirmed in the 2009 budget tabled by Minister Trevor Manuel on Wednesday.
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/ 10 February 2009
Too few doctors are available to treat all the patients in some departments of the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, it was reported on Tuesday.
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/ 10 February 2009
It will be a ”logistical nightmare” for the IEC to prepare for elections if expats are allowed to vote, it was reported on Tuesday.
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/ 10 February 2009
Planned retrenchments currently stood at 35 000 for all sectors of the domestic economy, trade union Solidarity said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 February 2009
Government on Tuesday admitted there were ”some problems” with passport authorisation in SA, which has put an end to visa-free entry to the UK.
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/ 10 February 2009
The NPA has been called to give evidence to Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts on allegations of fraud in the arms deal.
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/ 10 February 2009
Eskom has submitted a long-awaited application for a new tariff increase to Nersa, Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 February 2009
President Kgalema Motlanthe on Tuesday announced that the date for the general elections will be April 22 2009.