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SA moves to Level 1 of national lockdown
By: News24Wire Updated 30 minutes ago The sale of alcohol will be back to normal, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday night, after announcing that SA has moved to Level 1 of the... →
Covid-19: 'Over 67 000 health workers have been vaccinated in the past 10 days' - Ramaphosa
By: News24Wire Updated 33 minutes ago Over 67 000 health workers have been vaccinated in the past 10 days, with the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. A new batch of 80 000 doses of the... →
LGBT+ workers face increased workplace conflict, job dissatisfaction
By: Donna Slater 26th February 2021 More than 40% of workers who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or other nonbinary identities experienced work-affiliated conflict in 2020, compared with... →
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Opinions
Zuma vs the State
26th February 2021 Dear Mr President, His Excellency Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa. I am at my wits' end about the political antics of your fellow cadre, former president... →
Budget 2021 – JP Landman
26th February 2021 It is useful to start with what was expected by many commentators, but then did not actually materialise in the budget. There were no income tax... →
Tariff tussle
26th February 2021 Much attention is, quite correctly, being given to the 15.68% tariff increase granted to Eskom by the energy regulator following a court order... →
Intellectual property and Covid-19 medicines: why a WTO waiver may not be enough
25th February 2021 The Covid-19 pandemic, and the race to make vaccines and other useful technologies more accessible to people around the world, has once again... →
Recommendations
Responsible Use of Technology: The Microsoft Case Study
26th February 2021 In collaboration with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, USA The World Economic Forum Responsible Use of Technology... →
The 2021 Budget
25th February 2021 At one point in his speech yesterday, the finance minister plaintively insisted that this was “not an austerity budget”. That is probably not how... →
Proposed Electoral Model For South Africa
24th February 2021 In the light of the recent Constitutional Court judgement declaring the current Electoral Act unconstitutional, the Inclusive Society Institute... →
The New Era of Unconditional Convergence
24th February 2021 The central fact that has motivated the empirics of economic growth—namely unconditional divergence—is no longer true and has not been so for... →
Statements
350 Gauteng ambulances out of action due to accidents and repairs
Updated 5 minutes ago Gauteng residents often complain about poor ambulance response times, but 350 out of 1244 public ambulances are currently out of action because of... →
Exclusion of oral submissions by the Section 25 Ad-hoc committee is a violation of the Constitution
26th February 2021 Democratic Alliance (DA) members of Parliament (MPs) on the Section 25 ad hoc committee, tasked with the 18th Constitutional Amendment Bill, will... →
DA will not approve mismanagement in JB Marks Municipality
26th February 2021 The Democratic Alliance (DA) in JB Marks Local Municipality wrote to the Speaker, Kgosiemang Elias Mogoemang, demanding an action plan to address... →
Premier, stop insulting the people of KZN from your Ivory Tower
26th February 2021 Today’s State of the Province Address (SOPA) by KwaZulu-Natal Premier, Sihle Zikalala, was an insult to the people of our province as he presented... →
Press Offices
New earnings threshold as from 1 March 2021
26th February 2021 Certain provisions of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act of 1997 (the BCEA) pertaining to working time do not apply to employees who earn in... →
CDH celebrates three first place rankings at annual dealmakers awards
25th February 2021 Commercial law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH) has once again been recognised as the firm that consistently advised on the most M&A deals in South... →
South African National Budget Speech Highlights
25th February 2021 We would not be surprised if a lot more people took notice of Finance Minister Mboweni's annual budget speech this year, generally to see the state... →
CCMA Can Charge Employers Arbitration Fees
25th February 2021 There are several state sponsored forums required by the Labour Relations Act (LRA) to carry out labour dispute resolution. These include, amongst... →
