SA’s budget still transparent, but devil is in lack of details

BY ALBERT VAN ZYL AND JAY KRUUSE — THE newly released Open Budget index for 2015 is widely seen as the global measure for...

Ground Up: South Africa’s 5 million working poor

By Gilad Isaacs — Every day millions across South Africa do arduous work in jobs that cannot keep them and their dependants out of poverty....

PRICE OF MAIZE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING

Grain SA says the maize crop harvest decreased by 32 percent this season alone. JOHANNESBURG – Grain South Africa says the price of white...

Anglo Gold Ashanti announces big losses

By LISA STEYN — The bottom end of the commodities cycle continues to inflict pain on mining companies and Anglo Gold Ashanti announced even greater...

Depression on the rise among SA’s chronically ill

By MIA MALAN — Infectious diseases such as HIV and, increasingly, non-communicable illnesses like diabetes are resulting in more cases of chronic depression. Depression...

2015 SADC People’s Summit Communique

                                          ‘RECLAIMING SADC FOR...

SA schools don’t teach all 11 official languages, but are going to teach Mandarin? Readers respond

A vast majority of Times Live readers have expressed their discontent on social media at government’s ten year plan to roll out Mandarin, which...

Eskom seeks to recoup R38bn through tariff hikes

By Ana Monteiro — Johannesburg – State power utility Eskom has asked the national energy regulator Nersa for permission to recoup R38bn of costs...

High maize price defies fall in global food prices

THE upward trajectory in the maize price continued despite global food prices falling to a six-year low last month. A crippling drought has affected...

SAA and unions to seek settlement

SOUTH African Airways (SAA) and four unions are expected to continue talks on Friday after the Labour Court in Johannesburg suggested that a negotiated...

A large chunk of the Johannesburg Road Agency’s (JRA) budget is to be spent on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Johannesburg’s roads.

About R515-million of the agency’s R1.4-billion budget will be spent on road rehabilitation and reconstruction. “We are looking at a long- term way of...

Cosatu prods ANC on jobs summit

BY KARL GERNETZKY — THE country’s biggest trade union federations have warned against a looming jobs cull in major sectors, including the mining industry....