South Africa

Cape Town – The National Treasury has projected the consumer price inflation to drop to 4.3% in 2015.

Cape Town – While the tax proposals regime announced in the 2015 National Budget signalled difficult times ahead, Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene also announced new tax breaks that would ease the burden on the already strained working and middle class income earners.

Cape Town – Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene says government will reduce spending by R25 billion in the 2015/16 and 2016/17 financial year, in a bid to narrow the budget deficit.

Cape Town – Taxpayers should expect to pay a percentage point more from their personal income tax for government to raise an extra R12 billion this year and another R15 billion next year, the National Treasury said on Wednesday.

Pretoria - Free State Premier Ace Magashule says the province’s job creation prospects are looking up, with 51 020 work opportunities created as at the end of January this year through the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP).

Pretoria – The chairperson of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI), Cornelia September, has expressed concern about claims of leaked intelligence reports allegedly prepared by or on behalf of South African intelligence agencies.

Pretoria - The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements has received an additional R233 million to help increase productivity on its housing projects.

Pretoria – Freedom Park is an untapped liberation heritage gem yet to be fully utilised by all South Africans, says the park’s acting CEO Jane Mufamadi.

Pretoria - Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says Phase 3 of the Expanded Public Work Programme (EPWP) Social Sector must aim high and work harder towards increasing the current set targets for work opportunities.

Pretoria – Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene will this afternoon table the 2015 National Budget, outlining how government will finance its programme of action for the year ahead.

Pretoria – Unions linked to the SA Post Office (Sapo) have committed to support the administration technical team to deliver on its mandate of stabilising the organisation and turning the company around.

Pretoria – South Africa and Switzerland have recommitted to strengthen relations, with much focus on vocational training and skills development, says International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Luwellyn Landers.

Pretoria - Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza says he expects a 100% pass rate from the matriculants of a newly built Bushbuckridge school.

Pretoria – The Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, said on Tuesday the department had decided to grant several companies reprieve in order to meet minimum air emissions standards.

Pretoria – KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, has urged municipalities to stop hiring consultants to prepare municipal financial statements.