Economy
Minister Malusi Gigaba has presented the 2018 National Budget in Parliament. Highlights are: VAT increases to 15% on purchases, R57 billion for Higher Education, national GDP estimate rises from 0.7% to 1.0% over the next year.
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Friday, January 15, 2021 - 10:55am
 The Basic Education Department has announced that it will be delaying the reopening of schools. The department said it made this decision in an effort to save lives. Schools will now reopen on the 15th of February. The department said it will work on persuading private schools to also delay reopening. |
Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 2:02pm
 The sudden pandemic pushed business operations, and the ability to continuously develop their human capital’s skills, into the 4th Industrial Revolution much earlier than was anticipated. |
Thursday, January 14, 2021 - 12:16pm
 South Africans can expect to be without electricity for some time as Eskom has announced that Stage 2 loadshedding is back once again. Loadshedding will start at 12:00 on Thursday and end at 23:00 on Sunday night. In a statement released Thursday morning, Eskom said “The load-shedding is necessary due to loss of generation capacity overnight,” |
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 3:15pm
 Matshidiso Khalimatshi was one of many South African youth unable to find work in their chosen field after graduation. After weeks of sending one email application after another without response, she realised that she would have to change job-hunting tactics. |
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 11:09am
 Schools will be opening soon which means that teachers will be in close contact with their learners once again. This is the reason why NAPTOSA believes that the government should include teachers in the first group that will receive the COVID-19 vaccine. |
