Finance minister Enoch Godongwana will be making hard trade-offs as he balances competing interests in his maiden budget speech on Wednesday, says Andrew Duvenage, MD of NFB Wealth Management.

The 2022 budget must also prioritise investment in critical infrastructure, says Kulani Siweya, Agri SA’s chief economist.

There can be no dignity and improvement in the standard of living without access to quality public services, says the Institute for Economic Justice.

“The problem is when companies employ an illegal person to exploit them,” said home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

As a top export earner and job creator for low- to semi-skilled workers in peri-urban and rural areas, tourism has the potential to reignite SA’s economy.

The state has accused Limpopo farm manager Mark Scott-Crossley of intending to kill a farmworker when he allegedly became enraged after an altercation.

The Life Esidimeni inquest stands as a crucial accountability process for a national tragedy that ought never to have happened and should never happen again.

The US and its European allies are poised to announce harsh new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday after President Vladimir Putin formally recognised two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, escalating a security crisis on the continent.

"Our country will be safe if our intelligence can always be this active," said one user.

The Human Rights Commission continues hearing evidence from key witnesses about the July 2021 unrest in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

The City of Tshwane and Western Cape government have assured residents there is no need for panic.

Maintenance defaulters – all too often they are dads who ignore court orders to pay support for their children and their divorced wives – should be shivering in their sneakers after a new decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal.

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The council of the University of Cape Town has agreed not to completely block students who owe the institution fees from registering in the current academic year.

A policeman was killed in a confrontation with suspected robbers in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, on Monday, as cops foiled a cash-in-transit heist, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate says.

Gauteng recorded 40% of the new cases of Covid-19 reported by the NICD on Monday evening, followed by the North West and the Western Cape.

Police minister Bheki Cele has again poured cold water on national commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole’s claims that the police crime intelligence wing is under-resourced.

“It is heroes in uniform — fallen and still standing — who make sure that South Africans are able to retire in peace at night knowing that the country is safe,” Ramaphosa said.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern denounced protesters occupying parliament grounds after some ugly clashes with police on Tuesday.

The health department has clarified that those who got their initial jabs of the Covid-19 vaccine outside SA can soon get their booster shots in this country.

The drop in water quality was attributed to low dam levels and fluctuating reservoir levels in recent weeks.

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Deaths in Hong Kong’s worst ever Covid-19 outbreak are forecast to spiral, with experts predicting a wave of fatalities among the city’s under-inoculated and vaccine hesitant elderly population.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine after recognising them as independent on Monday, accelerating a crisis the West fears could unleash a major war.

Boris Johnson confirmed coronavirus rules will end in England, a significant boost to the UK prime minister as he announced the first major Western economy to scrap government restrictions relating to the pandemic.

As Zimbabwe’s public healthcare system continues to crumble, many pregnant women are turning to independent midwives to deliver their children.

Five members of Guatemala's anti-corruption prosecutor's office have resigned from their posts this month, the Public Ministry said on Monday, after two of them publicly denounced what they called unjust prosecution.

A man was knocked down and killed by a motorist soon after allegedly bludgeoning his 72-year-old mother to death with a hammer in KwaNobuhle on Monday.

Three suspects are expected to appear in the Hillbrow magistrate’s court soon for housing fraud in Johannesburg.

Teachers at Filadelfia Secondary School for pupils with special education needs were turned away on Monday after pupils locked them out in support of "unpaid security guards" and over safety concerns.