By Rachel Mohamed As South Africa faces challenges related to public sector wages, fiscal sustainability, and economic priorities, the upcoming Budget Speech is attracting significant attention. Citizens are eagerly awaiting Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s delivery of the budget speech today. VOC News spoke to South Africans to gather their views
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is staging protests today in the Western Cape, Limpopo, and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, calling for an end to austerity measures ahead of Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s much-anticipated 2025 Budget Speech. The demonstrations aim to highlight the impact of funding cuts on essential sectors
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) will lead a national protest on Wednesday, 19 February 2025, calling for higher taxes on the wealthy, an end to budget cuts, and the implementation of a Basic Income Grant. Speaking on VOC’s NewsBeat on Tuesday, SAFTU spokesperson Newton Masuku emphasized the
Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) quarterly labour force survey for the fourth quarter of 2024 indicates a slight decrease in the unemployment rate, which has dropped to 31.9 percent from 32.1 percent in the previous quarter. Employment rose by 132,000, bringing the total number of employed persons to 17.1 million.
A second Capetonian surfer from Muizenberg is set to compete in the All-Africa Surf Tour event in Côte d’Ivoire. Colin Fitch, Technical Director of the African Surfing Confederation and a representative of the African Surfing Alliance Surf Club, shared insights on the event. “We launched the tour last year, covering
By Kouthar Sambo Business Tech noted that South Africa’s taxi industry is now adopting mafia-style tactics to intimidate and extort private citizens, schools, and businesses. An organized crime expert, Chad Thomas, spoke on VOC’s PM Drive show, saying that the taxi industry “has been a law of itself many years.”
Community safety organizations in Elsies River are sounding the alarm over an escalating wave of gang-related violence, following a “bloody” weekend in which at least six people lost their lives. Hamish Arries, chief of the Elsies River safety initiative and former deputy chairperson of the community policing forum (CPF), expressed
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is set to deliver the highly anticipated 2025 Budget Speech this week amid growing economic challenges and a worsening cost-of-living crisis. With South Africa’s working class bearing the brunt of these financial hardships, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has urged the government to
By Kouthar Sambo Ahead of the national budget in parliament, which takes place on Wednesday, 19 Feb (2025), analysts and critics condemned plans to raise personal, corporate, or value-added taxes. This comes after analysts predict that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana may have to increase taxes to improvise for the shortfall.
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