The revenue outlook could dim even more if markets react adversely to an awaited announcement by the US Federal Reserve, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan warned on Tuesday. “In respect of the revenue outlook in relation to the current economic growth that we are experiencing,… we are today facing more difficulties than anticipated. “[This is] partly
Read more: South African finance minister warns on weak currency, declining taxes
Senior ANC MP John Jeffery formally withdrew his controversial remark about DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko’s weight and apologised to her on Tuesday. He did so after deputy speaker Nomaindia Mfeketo ruled emphatically that the comment was unparliamentary. “In the past, many rulings were made on remarks regarding members’ physical appearance, and these have always
Read more: Statements about Mazibuko’s weight, ‘darkies’, ‘clowns’ withdrawn in SA parliament
by Dan Roodt [followbutton username=’danroodt’ count=’true’ lang=’en’ theme=’light’] Like Dan Roodt’s Facebook page In my last column, I went to the trouble of explaining what happened on 16 June 1976 and that none of the six rioting Soweto high schools had actually been forced to learn anything in Afrikaans, whereas a seventh studied only the
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There was no “back door pipeline” to BlackBerry South Africa’s platform, the company said on Tuesday following reports that the United Kingdom government had been monitoring e-mails and phone calls. “While we cannot comment on media reports regarding alleged government surveillance of telecommunications traffic, we remain confident in the superiority of BlackBerry’s mobile security platform
Everyone is wondering who Mr. Rhodes is. Ben Rhodes, a 30-something who ascended from literally nowhere to be what seems a main driving force behind Obama’s foreign policy. He is credited with convincing the president to embrace the Arab Spring, convincing the president to bomb Libya, and, now, convincing the president to start yet another
Hate crimes have soared against whites in South Africa during the moth of May, 2013. 1 May – Christo Viljoen (47) was shot through his neck in Bultfontein by 3 black men. 1 May – Babs Roos (70) was attacked in her home in Klerksdorp. She was assaulted, robbed and murdered. 1 May – Heleen
Authorities in Kuwait on Tuesday hanged a 33-year-old Egyptian man dubbed a “monster” for the abduction and rape of 17 children under the age of 10, the public prosecution said. Hajjaj Saadi, who was handed five death sentences, complained shortly before his execution that had not been given any assistance from the Egyptian government, a
Top Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatary, accused of overseeing thousands of Jewish deportations during World War II, was charged with war crimes on Tuesday in Hungary, prosectors said. The 98-year-old, under house arrest since last year after apparently living for years undisturbed in Hungary, is listed by the Wiesenthal Center as its most-wanted alleged
Government has acknowledged that high levels of violent crime in South Africa are having a significant negative impact on the country’s economy, Beeld reported on Tuesday. According to government’s green paper on policing, drawn up by the police civil secretariat and which had just been released, violent crime was preventing South Africans from participating socially
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Possibly as a result of extra pressure from anti-white discrimination due to affirmative action and Black Economic Empowerment, South African self-made entrepreneurs top the global list. The creation myth of American wealth is almost always rooted in the entrepreneur. It’s the two kids who start a computer company in their garage or dorm room. Or
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US states suffering a drought are facing a dire water crisis exacerbated by hydraulic fracturing. The procedure consumes vast amounts of water, which has driven up prices and depleted certain aquifers and rivers. In drought-stricken regions, fracking is taking a serious toll on the water availability of local communities, in some cases turning water into
A senior Gauteng Province police officer was found dead in an open field near Hammanskraal north of Pretoria on Tuesday, police said. “Early this morning his body was found with his hands and feet tied,” Brigadier Neville Malila said. “Forensic experts are on the scene to establish the cause of death.” He said the officer’s
As the dust settles on the revelation that the U.S. government has been mining data from most of Silicon Valley’s largest companies in a program called “PRISM,” one question stands out: How did the NSA get access? Apple, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, the largest companies involved in PRISM, the existence of which was revealed last
Read more: Tech giants deny knowledge of PRISM spy operation
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of major Brazilian cities Monday protesting the billions of dollars spent on the Confederation Cup and higher public transport costs, police said. In Sao Paulo, the country’s economic capital and most populous city, an estimated 30,000 marched toward the main Paulista Avenue, with no repetition so
Read more: Tens of thousands protest Confed Cup costs in Brazil
