Given Majola

Property Journalist

Employees need at least 5% salary increase just to maintain spending power - tax expert

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As rising taxes, stagnant income brackets, and the lack of an interest rate cut squeeze household budgets, experts warn that South Africans need salary hikes just ...

Eskom’s 12. 7% electricity tariff increase will knock out South Africans’ wins from interest rate cut

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South Africans can brace for an electricity tariff increase in April. This means saving of a mere R170 for those owning a R1m home, will hardly make a dent in the ...

South Africa gears up for historic G20 Presidency in 2025

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The G20 is a forum of the largest economies in the world who meet regularly to discuss the most pressing issues facing the global economy.

R64 billion infrastructure pipeline set to transform South African development

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South Africa's Department of Public Works and Infrastructure announces a groundbreaking R64 billion infrastructure pipeline, targeting critical sectors including ...

SA sugar industry relieved by absence of sugar tax increases in MTBPS

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South Africa’s sugarcane industry has welcomed the omitting of an increase of the health promotion levy (or the sugar tax) by the Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana ...

ANC pushes to expand zero-rated food items amidst soaring costs

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This announcement was made by ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula during a media briefing at Luthuli House, following the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting ...

Business confidence rises as GNU reforms, load shedding suspension ease uncertainty

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Businesses in South Africa are feeling a bit more confident about the country’s policy direction as a result of structural reforms embarked on since the formation ...

Eskom and Sasol agree to reshape SA’s energy landscape with LNG deal

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Eskom and Sasol have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaboratively explore and research potential future liquefied natural gas requirements. This landmark ...

Land reform programme has faced challenges but should not be written off - Vumelana

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The Northern Cape's Kgalagadi tourism project has emerged as one of the success stories of South Africa’s land reform programme, according to the Vumelana Advisory ...

Agriculture dept curtails animal movement amid foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

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As South Africa heads to the celebration of “National Braai Day” in just over a week from now, the government has advised all livestock farmers nationwide to limit ...

South Africans relying on payday loans to make ends meet

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Benay Sager, executive head of DebtBusters, explained that when the interest rate increases began, people started to feel the increasing pressure of servicing asset-linked ...

State of municipalities crippling SA farming sector, says Agbiz

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Agbiz chief economist Wandile Sihlobo said farmers and agribusinesses have seen an increase in transaction costs because of the failures to improve the road networks ...

South Africans cutting back on food and groceries, Wonga survey shows

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South Africans are cutting back on food and groceries to be able to keep paying for medical aid, insurance and home security, as the cost-of-living crisis escalates. ...

ENGIE commences construction on Grootspruit PV power plant

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Grootspruit in the Free State is one of two solar PV power plants that ENGIE will be building in the country. The other plant, the Graspan solar PV plant, will be ...

Nearly 60% of sampled SA stores are selling illicit tobacco products – study

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British American Tobacco Sub-Saharan Africa has called on the National Treasury to capacitate the South African Revenue Service with additional funding for it to ...

South Africans buying down on chicken products to stretch their money

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Thomas said the jump in demand for low-cost chicken products such as offal and carcasses served as additional evidence of this point, signalling local consumers’ ...

Consumers will still feel price pressures despite falling petrol price

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Consumers in South Africa are expected to continue feeling the price pressures and high borrowing costs in spite of the significant petrol price cuts in June and ...

‘Bantu Economy’ is choking our youth

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OPINION: Just as the youth of ’76 contended with Bantu education, today’s youth are being choked by something similar on the economic front, writes Given Majola. ...

Load shedding reprieve spells new problem for SA, says Ramokgopa

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Fixing what was broken at Eskom did not just result in South Africa experiencing more than 50 days without load shedding, but has also created a new engineering ...

Jobs in SA agriculture rose by 50% in 13 years - report

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The Macroeconomic Digest Labour Report for May 2024 has showed that employment in the agriculture sector increased by 50% on a long-term basis, from 627,000 jobs ...

Poultry sector calls frozen imports unnecessary, unjustified and damaging

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The awarding of certain rebates for frozen poultry imports to curb alleged “shortages” in the local market are unnecessary, unjustified and damaging to the domestic ...

Anglo-American announces financing for wind and solar projects

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The three renewable energy projects, known as the Koruson 2 cluster of projects and located on the border of the Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, will have a capacity ...

Namibia and Botswana should ease current restrictions on SA vegetables - Agbiz

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South Africa should send a firm message to neighbouring Namibia and Botswana about its interest in maintaining smooth trade within the Southern African Customs Union, ...

SA agriculture exports rise 4% in the third quarter

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South Africa’s agricultural exports amounted to $3. 9 billion in the third quarter, lifting by 4% over a year, according to data from Trade Map.

No poultry shortage, association reassures consumers

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The South African Poultry Association has reassured consumers that there will be no poultry shortage over the festive season.