SA volunteers give emotional accounts of earthquake rescue mission
Tears flowed in the international arrivals terminal at Cape Town International Airport as family, friends, colleagues and members of the Turkish community in Cape...
South Africans not prepared to pay more income tax
Cash-strapped citizens are not prepared to pay more in income tax and a suggestion to the Minister of Finance is that he create a...
Home power back-up systems – electrical engineers answer your burning questions
There’s a bewildering array of jargon to sift through and many elements to consider, from the right kind of inverter to the size of...
Markets on Monday: Rand under pressure
This week, investors and analysts will await the Minister of Finance’s annual Budget speech on Wednesday. THE RAND depreciated last week to its lowest...
People living in fear of being taken out by hit men
OPINION: Hardened criminals can act with impunity because South Africa has become a criminalised state, in which officials use political office for personal enrichment...
Will Ramaphosa’s R2 trillion investment target be achievable in five years?
President Cyril Ramaphosa publicly set his Presidency an investment target of R1.2 trillion for the first five years of his term. He has now declared...
Artificial intelligence one of biggest risks to civilisation, warns Elon Musk
As ChatGPT shows that artificial intelligence (AI) has become incredibly advanced, tech billionaire Elon Musk has warned that AI is one of the biggest...
Carping point: Gift of the Givers puts government to shame
OPINION: Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, the founder of the Gift of the Givers, is the kind of South African that we all aspire to be,...
Godongwana faces tough Budget as SA’s fiscus teeters on brink of...
Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana needs to make tough fiscal decisions as insufficient energy supply poses the biggest downside risk to growth and investment.FINANCE...
Skills crisis: SA youth cannot win as game of life is...
OPINION: While the country cries for skills, the country scores an own goal by constraining options of entry to higher education, writes Dr Pali...
