Narcotics worth R65million confiscated at the Durban Harbour. The South African Revenue Services (SARS) Durban Customs office conducted a collaborative intelligence operation led at the Durban Harbour in the early hours of Sunday morning. The operation resulted in the seizure of 30 bricks of Suspected Narcotics that were in Reefer Refrigeration Unit of the vessel…
SIU branded vehicle. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has been granted permission to expand its scope of investigations into alleged corruption by the National Lottery Commission (NLC). This is after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed an amendment of the NLC Proclamation, which significantly broadens the scope of the SIU’s ongoing probe. The proclamation amends the initial…
A cargo ship carrying containers approaches towards the Yantian port in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China April 17, 2025. The United States and China on Tuesday will begin charging port fees on ocean shipping firms that move everything from holiday toys to crude oil, making the high seas a key front in the trade war between…
Chinese brand BAIC South Africa has secured commitments from Chinese and Indian car companies to upgrade their semi-knocked-down (SKD) vehicle assembly operations to full-scale manufacturing, the Trade Minister Parks Tau said on Thursday, as industry leaders call for more domestic production. The government is in talks with multinational carmakers, who have South African factories, including…
Solar panels are seen near the cooling towers of a retired coal-fired Komati Power Station near Komati village in Mpumalanga on 09 May 2024. Minister of Electricity and Energy Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has assured businesspeople, especially in the mining sector, that government will look for better ways to implement the just energy transition. Speaking on…
Minister of Electricity and Energy Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is pictured with other key speakers at the Investment and Mining Conference in Middelburg, Mpumalanga on 02 October 2025. Minister of Electricity and Energy Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has assured businesspeople in Mpumalanga that electricity load reduction will soon be a thing of the past. Ramokgopa was addressing delegates…
The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) TV Park building in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. The Auditor General has issued a second consecutive unqualified audit opinion for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) for the year ended 31st March 2025. The positive audit opinion is noted as a demonstration of the public broadcaster’s commitment to transparency, governance…
A banner welcoming visitors to the City of Ekurhuleni offices. The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng says the City of Ekurhuleni‘s debt to service providers has ballooned from R6 billion to R13 billion in just a month, resulting in projects grinding to a halt. The DA’s Member of the Provincial Legislature (MPL), Mike Waters, says…
[FILE IMAGE]: Yanga Mputa giving a Public Lecture on “Making Taxpayers Rights Matter”. Ms Mputa was hosted by the Faculty of Law at UJ. The Office of the Tax Ombud has found that eFiling profile hijacking is most prevalent among tax practitioners and individual taxpayers. The draft eFiling profile hijacking report notes that the majority…
A worker harvests grapes at the La Motte wine farm in Franschoek near Cape Town, South Africa Experts have warned that uncertainty over jobs and trade still hangs over South Africa following the expiration of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Political economist Professor Patrick Bond says in the absence of any relief on…
