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Economists forecast that South Africa’s economy is likely to grow strongly in the third quarter of 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic caused a major contraction in Q2 2020.

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) says that it will move ahead with plans to strike against the government’s refusal to increase public servants’ salaries and a failure to offer adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) against the coronavirus.

Alcohol industry players in South Africa have pledged to invest upwards of R150 million in harm-reduction programmes over the next year.

Parliament scraps the controversial Road Accident Benefit Scheme; hotels and related businesses still suffering, with international travel the next hurdle; SA banks have put up R537 billion in relief funding for customers during lockdown; and the ANC says it is perfectly happy having corruption accused Zandile Gumede warming up the back benches of its KZN legislature.

National Treasury has published its local government revenue and expenditure report for the fourth quarter of the 2019/20 financial year, showing that municipal consumer debt continues to climb.

The first period for provisional tax will end on 31 August and provisional taxpayers must have submitted their initial IRP6 return and settled any payments due by that date.

Western Cape premier Alan Winde has called for South Africans to go out and support local businesses to save the economy, and stave off job losses. 

The appointment of corruption-accused and former eThekwini mayor, Zandile Gumede, to the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature is an insult to South Africans and an affront to claims by the KZN provincial government that it will not tolerate corruption within its ranks, says the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA).