Moneyweb@Midday

'No genuine attempt by COJ to educate property owners on rate hikes'

A round-up of news updates, including a look at threats by Santaco to take the City of Cape Town to court over the recent impounding of taxis. A look at calls by Johannesburg residents for the city to reconsider property rate hikes and analysis of Ramaphosa's plans to fight corruption.

15 Aug 2023 6AM 34 min

[TOP STORY] Local poultry industry welcomes import duties

‘We have fridges full of chicken, so I don't expect a chicken shortage and neither do I expect that this duty will have a material impact in raising prices to the consumer,’ says the chief executive officer of the South African Poultry Association, Izaak Breitenbach.

14 Aug 2023 8AM 5 min

Koeberg delays could be disastrous for SA's power supply’

A round-up of news updates, including a look at the impact of undersea cable damage on the internet. Poultry sector's take around chicken tariffs and insights on what’s causing the delays at Koeberg.

14 Aug 2023 6AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] Zuma remission: It’s legal but is it rational?

‘What was the criteria which was used in order to release them or in this instance, which special type of treatment has been utilised in order to protect or maybe in order for the former president to be able to benefit,’ says legal analyst, Mpumelelo Zikalala.

11 Aug 2023 9AM 6 min

SIU to probe more supply chain failures at Tembisa Hospital

A round-up of news updates, including a look at Correctional Services's decision on former president Jacob Zuma’s jail term. The tourism sector welcomes the end of the Cape Town taxi strike, what the Lady R investigation found and the SIU updates on the Tembisa Hospital procurement investigation.

11 Aug 2023 6AM 34 min

[TOP STORY] Cape Town taxi strike delivers severe blow to economy

‘This is absolutely problematic for the country and takes us back significantly and we are already at the precipice, and things like this just create serious crises,’ says Business Unity South Africa’s chief executive officer, Cas Coovadia.

10 Aug 2023 8AM 6 min

Insufficient training and resources impede GBV fight

A round-up of news updates, including a look at the latest on the Cape Town taxi strike. Calls from rights organisations for tougher action against GBV and a look at whether regulating coalitions is the right solution.

10 Aug 2023 6AM 31 min

[TOP STORY] Calm descends on Cape Town taxi strike

‘It has been said since Friday, if we can see peace, we’re happy to negotiate and hopefully today we can start to put that back on the table,’ says Western Cape Premier, Alan Winde.

8 Aug 2023 9AM 8 min

Samwu denies taking part in wildcat Tshwane strike

A roundup of news, including an interview with the Western Cape Premier on the taxi strike in Cape Town. A look at warnings from the Banking Ombudsman on the rise in digital fraud, and SAMWU on the dismissal of municipal workers in the City of Tshwane.

8 Aug 2023 6AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] Eskom whistleblower fears for her life

‘I do feel that danger is imminent in that the hitman had personal information of mine. He knows where I live,’ says former forensic manager at Eskom, Dorothy Mmushi.

7 Aug 2023 8AM 8 min

Western Cape taxi strike escalates

A round up of news including the latest on the taxi strike in the Western Cape. A look at prospects for coalition governments ahead of next year’s elections, a former Eskom forensic investigator on widespread corruption at the power utility and the dangers of doing the job.

7 Aug 2023 6AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] Grave concern for free and fair Zimbabwean elections

‘Traditional chiefs were going to commandeer people under them to do what they call command voting, where the traditional leader in that area will frogmarch people under them to a polling station and watch over them as they cast their vote,’ says Human Rights Watch senior researcher, Idriss Nassah.

4 Aug 2023 6AM 6 min

Employee burnout is a ticking timebomb

A roundup of news, including why rights organisations are concerned about Zimbabwe’s upcoming elections. A look at a new virtual tool launched to track political party funding, the impact of burnout on the workforce and a glimpse at Rugby coach Rassie Erasmus's new book.

4 Aug 2023 5AM 31 min

[TOP STORY] UIF: 115 Ters fraud cases still under investigation

‘So I think for us, this is us sending a message to all and sundry who might want to defraud any state institution, not only UIF, that the law of this country will catch up with you,’ says UIF Commissioner, Teboho Maruping.

3 Aug 2023 11AM 7 min

Women's football desperately needs sponsors

A round-up of news updates, including an update on work being done to punish those implicated in defrauding the UIF Ters. A look at more initiatives by the business sector to support government and how much legal trouble is Donald Trump in?

3 Aug 2023 6AM 31 min

Zama zamas are terrorists – Lesufi

‘We just need a combination of all the law enforcement agencies and go down there, flush out those people, let the last man stand, so that we can be in a position to close down those mines and reuse them either for housing, sporting facilities and community facilities,’ says Gauteng…

2 Aug 2023 9AM 12 min

Stubbornly low growth impeding NDP's success

A roundup of news updates, including a conversation with Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi on Gauteng’s jobs initiative. A look at whether South Africa is on track to achieving its National Development Plan goals and why the City of Tshwane is asking residents to avoid burning waste.

2 Aug 2023 6AM 31 min

[TOP STORY] The 'fly in the ointment' in government's Energy Action Plan

‘What should have happened between last July and today, Gwede Mantashe’s department should have invited another bid round, bid round seven, but they should have dealt with the problems that they experienced in bid round six,’ says energy analyst Hilton Trollip.

1 Aug 2023 9AM 7 min

Eskom using technology to fight cable theft

A round up of news updates, including a look at the latest Sweep South report on domestic workers' working conditions. A look at what's behind the surge in cable theft and the Public Protector’s Phala Phala report to be challenged in court.

1 Aug 2023 6AM 31 min

[TOP STORY] Limpopo liquor traders prepare to oppose midnight ban

‘To punish liquor traders and take two hours as a means of fighting crime, in the absence of any scientific evidence that points to the fact that if you remove two hours from trading per day, then we're going to fight crime, then it's a questionable proposition,’ says National Liquor…

31 Jul 2023 9AM 6 min