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With South Africa’s biggest state utility in crisis, one of parliament’s most important financial oversight committees called an urgent online meeting with the company.

The Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) has reached a settlement agreement a with the state attorney acting on the behalf of president Cyril Ramaphosa and Cogta minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma about the return of the country’s cigarette sales ban.

With the lockdown gradually easing, the annual consumer price index (CPI) rose to 3.2%, up from 2.2% in June.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says it will begin mobilising for major strike action in the first week of October.

From level 5 to level 3 of South Africa’s lockdown, there has been a decline in the number of new cases, showing a slowing down of Covid-19 transmissions.

South Africa’s Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme has been halted, pending an investigation by the auditor-general.

The EFF’s deputy president Floyd Shivambu has briefed parliament’s Finance Standing Committee on the South African Reserve Bank Amendment bill on Tuesday evening (26 August).

The National Assembly has passed the Disaster Management Tax Relief Bill and the Disaster Management Tax Relief Administration Bill.