Over the course of history, hundreds of songs have been written about marriage or about hopeful lovers popping the question. Unfortunately, reality doesn’t always play out like a classic love ballad. Sometimes, despite your best…
South Africa’s Unemployment Rises to 32.5%
South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 32.5% in the last three months of 2020, Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke has revealed. The increase presents a 1.7 percentage point increase from the third quarter of 2020. Despite the…
Prominent Ugandan news websites implicated in governmen…
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu salutes the crowd as he passes through Mukono on the outskirts of Kampala during his presidential campaign. (Photo: EPA-EFE / STR) Seven news websites were implicated in a Facebook takedown on 8…
6 shipwrecks to visit around South Africa
South Africa’s coast has long been known as a treacherous voyage for ships. The route around the Cape is called the Cape of Storms for a reason.While not many ships have run aground recently, with…
SA’s AstraZeneca Vaccine Doses Will Not Go To…
Dr Mkhize says the AstraZeneca vaccines have been offered to the AU and will not go to waste. Photo: SA News Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, says the SA government has offered the African Union…
Study shows surprising increase in wealth in South…
South African households’ real net wealth increased by an estimated R1 trillion from the onset of the second quarter of 2020 (Q2 2020) to the end of the year (Q4 2020). This was a key…
Why a ‘wealth tax’ would be more like…
Government policy documents circulated in 2020 point to the possible introduction of a new wealth tax in South Africa, known as a ‘solidarity tax’. According to the documents, this ‘solidarity tax’ would target the country’s…
German Hero Risks His Life to Save 3…
A German international “trouble shooter”, whose work usually involves James Bond-type situations, has been hailed a hero after saving the lives of three swimmers in less than a year, on the same South African beach.…
Expect big petrol price increases in South Africa…
Finance minister Tito Mboweni is set to deliver his 2021 budget speech on 24 February, with fuel levies expected to be an obvious revenue target once again. Tax experts at legal firm ENSAfrica said that…