South Africa-born Elon Musk has extended his lead over France’s LVMH chairperson Bernard Arnault in the world’s richest person list. Musk, 52, who was born in Pretoria in South Africa, has seen his fortune skyrocket by $110 billion this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. ALSO READ | What is the most common name for a newborn BOY in South Africa? […]

The Outlier website has released its monthly grocery basket comparison for June 2023 – with some changes from previous months. Prices of 12 staple foods and products were collected from eight major South African retailers, namely: Makro, Woolworths, Spar, Shoprite, Checkers, Pick n Pay, Food Lover’s Market and Boxer. MUST READ | SARS tax questions answered: What are the tax season deadlines? Previously, […]

A group of women in the Free State are eradicating poverty in Meloding, Virginia, through a community development and nutrition centre that provides daily meals to unemployed and vulnerable residents. Bomme ba Boithatelo bo Botle consists of a group of women dedicated to serving their community by providing meals to residents who are living below […]

The South African and ended up with the short end of the stick again, with the ZAR testing all-time lows against many major currency counterparts. Despite a rather stable week in the forex markets, the ZAR continued along its downward trajectory. South African producer price index (PPI) data came in at 7.3% for the month […]

Famous British entrepreneur Richard Branson, recently surprised crew and staff of local budget carrier Fastjet when he flew to Zimbabwe’s capital city. The Virgin Group founder happily posed in photographs with passengers and airport staff at Harare’s Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. The British billionaire is somewhat of a celebrity in these parts. Being the […]

Elon Musk spent the weekend further alienating Twitter users with more drastic changes to the social media giant, and he is facing a new challenge as tech nemesis Mark Zuckerberg prepares to launch a rival app this week. ZUCKERBERG Zuckerberg’s Meta group, which owns Facebook, has listed a new app in stores as “Threads, an […]

The time to file your annual income tax return is only days away. Individual taxpayers can submit their return from 20h00 on Friday 7 July 2023 until 23 October 2023. While provisional taxpayers have until 24 January 2024 to submit their income tax return. SARS is also in the process of sending out millions of SMSs to taxpayers who […]

You need to renew your car license once a year to be legal on South African roads. To help you find the cheapest online platform, we put together a useful article on where you can renew your car license online – click HERE for more. ALSO READ: Vehicle license renewal fees EXPLAINED However, those websites/services do not include the […]

Anti-corruption activist Paul Holden has done South Africa a great favour by summarising the work of the judicial commission that probed massive corruption under former president Jacob Zuma. No one except academics will read the commission’s 4,750 page report, but many will read Holden’s book, Zondo at your Fingertips. Holden is a former director of […]

The last, relatively pristine section of Western Cape coastline between the Olifants River and the Northern Cape border is threatened by two new mining-related applications.

A “gagging order” obtained by the Moti Group against investigative news agency amaBhungane has been set aside in its entirety. The Gauteng High Court has set aside the “gagging order” brought against amaBhungane by the Moti Group. Judge Roland Sutherland said the Moti Group had abused the court process by bringing an unjustified ex parte […]

To avoid paying administration fees to renew a vehicle licence disc online, motorists can make use of the Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) online service. The only fee charged is the R99 courier fee, which other online service providers also charge. “The R72 transaction fee, which has been referred to, is a legislated fee, which […]

Motorists are in for more relief this month, as both grades of fuel are expected to decrease for the second month in a row. Illuminating paraffin and LP Gas are also expected to decrease, with an increase in the price of both grades of diesel. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has announced […]

Last week famous British entrepreneur Richard Branson flew into neighbouring Zimbabwe, not by private jet or in first class. Branson arrived in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare with budget airline Fastjet on 30 June. The airline was honoured to have the celebrity entrepreneur on board one of its flights and thanked the founder of the Virgin Group […]

Botswana has reached an eleventh-hour deal with diamond giant De Beers after months of tense negotiations that saw the continent’s top producer threatening to cut ties with the storied company. ALSO READ: Botswana threatens to cut ties with diamond giant De Beers The Botswana government and Anglo-American, the majority owner of De Beers, have reached an “agreement in […]

Metrorail services in and around Cape Town have yet to fully recover from theft and vandalism that happened during the Covid lockdown period when trains stopped running. Already long before the pandemic, the service was crumbling. GroundUp had been documenting Metrorail’s steady demise since 2013. The Central Line, which was the busiest and served commuters from the […]

The Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, has appointed Yanga Mputa as the Tax Ombud effective from 1 July 2023 for a period of five years. Mputa is South Africa’s first female Tax Ombud. She takes over from Professor Thabo Legwaila, who has been acting in the role since October 2022, after the term of the […]

It has taken two years for an acting judge in the Cape Town Labour Court to come to the aid of a Cape wine farm worker, who was fired after she gave an interview to a Swedish journalist about her working conditions. Claudine van Wyk, a wine farm worker, was fired in October 2020 after […]

After a lengthy absence on the international scene, SA’s national carrier South African Airways (SAA) will soon be jetting off to another continent. SAA is rebuilding its international network. The carrier will relaunch its first intercontinental route since restarting operations as a smaller airline nearly 2 years ago. INTERNATIONAL ROUTE The airline’s first intercontinental scheduled […]

The Western Cape will finally have a direct connection to South America, with South African Airways (SAA) announcing a direct, non-stop flight connecting Cape Town International Airport with São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport (GRU) in São Paulo, Brazil. Sao Paulo was identified as the biggest unserved market with the fastest growth for Cape Town and the […]

The Cape Town Labour Court has sent Claudine van Wyk’s case back to the CCMA. By Tania Broughton Claudine van Wyk, a wine farm worker, was fired in October 2020 after she gave an interview to a Swedish magazine. The Cape Town Labour Court has ruled that her dismissal was substantially and procedurally unfair and […]

Reuters: The South African rand gained on Tuesday as analysts speculated the weekend’s aborted mutiny in Russia may mean President Vladimir Putin could skip BRICS summit where South Africa would in theory be obliged to arrest him. SOUTH AFRICAN RAND GAINED The BRICS group of emerging economies, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, […]

It was hard to imagine a more obvious attempt at bullying than the “gagging” case brought by the Moti Group against amaBhungane, its counsel, Advocate Steven Budlender said on Tuesday. Arguments from the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism to overturn a “gagging” order against them reporting on the Moti Group were heard in court on […]

The Hout Bay harbour is set to get an upgrade and a “state of the art” fish processing and packaging facility, and long-awaited, 15-year fishing rights will be allocated in the Western Cape by October “at the latest” in time for the West Coast lobster season. This was announced at an intergovernmental community meeting in Hout Bay last […]

South Africa recorded 21 000 jobs lost in the first quarter of the 2023/2024 financial year, according to Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) released on Tuesday, 27 June. READ: Three more G4S employees arrested in Thabo Bester case TRADE AND BUSINESS SERVICES SUFFER SIGNIFICANT LOSSES, CONTRIBUTING TO SOUTH AFRICA’S OVERAL EMPLOYMENT DECLINE […]