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Caiphus Kgosana is the Editor of Business Times.

Tourism Minister Patricia De Lille opens the Tourism Leadership Conference 2025 held at Sun City in the North West

New electronic visa application system 'a game changer', says De Lille

Delegates from China, India, Indonesia and Mexico travelling to Johannesburg for the G20 Heads of State Summit in November will be able to apply for travel visas from the comfort of their own homes using a smartphone.

Popo Molefe, pictured, has been replaced as chair of Transnet by Andile Sangqu.

New chair for Transnet board as Gordhan shakes things up

Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordan has announced a shakeup of the Transnet board after constraints on the railways and ports resulted in South Africa missing out on billions of rand in revenue.

EFF president Julius Malema addresses the media on the negotiations of coalitions with other parties.

CAIPHUS KGOSANA | Malema the power broker has played the coalition game to perfection

The EFF leader has a ruthless streak and a shrewd political brain, but he mustn’t let his power go to his head

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has succeeded with his urgent application in the Johannesburg high court for an order declaring bribe allegations by businessman Mthunzi Mdwaba to be defamatory and false. File image
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Ugly shoes to fill: Godongwana had no choice but to tread lightly

The new finance minister’s first budget is one of fiscal consolidation

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana during his press conference before his first medium-term budget speech at parliament, Cape Town, on Thursday. PICTURE: ESA ALEXANDER/SUNDAY TIMES

Commodities boom boosts tax revenue but it could be short-lived

“A surge in commodity prices has significantly improved the in-year revenue outlook, although its effect is likely to be temporary. Revenue collection remains well below pre-pandemic expectations, and in this sense the numbers flatter to…

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana.

Treasury welcomes deregulation of electricity

The Treasury has described continuous power cuts implemented by Eskom as a drag on growth.

If only the same could be said for South Africa.

As long as the ANC directs SA, it will be a B movie

In the greater scheme of things we are irrelevant, because apart from commodities SA at present has little to offer

The AA holds the view that the e-toll system in its present form will continue to fail as most motorists have a taken a stand against making payments.

The state scored an e-toll own goal. Now it must play ball

Instead of wasting time trying to recoup what’s unrecoupable, it should use the gantries for much-needed traffic control

A DA poster in Phoenix ahead of local government elections. The community there came under fire in July after 36 people were killed in unrest in the area.

CAIPHUS KGOSANA | Fanning racial flames is no way to run an election campaign

With the dearth of political options, I may as well just take election day off, relax and WhatsApp my friends

Royal AM owner Shauwn Mkhize celebrates her team's DStv Premiership win over Kaizer Chiefs at FNB Stadium.

Arrogant ANC heading for an own-goal if it’s not careful

If infighting and factionalism in the party doesn’t stop, it will lose to the underdogs

Deputy finance minister David Masondo chairs the PIC, the largest financial investment fund on the continent with a huge transformation role to play in the economy.

A costly state bank is the last thing the ANC needs

The party passes fantasy resolutions without telling us how its mega ideas will be funded

An elderly women shops from a makeshift store as a young girl walks past portraits of former president Nelson Mandela, painted by OJ Zwane, in Soweto.

A noble ANC led us to the Promised Land, but now it’s left us high and dry

The party has not only let itself down but lamentably the people who look to it for guidance and leadership

Nelson Mandela Bay’s unemployment rate was recorded at 32% in the second quarter of 2023, an improvement on the first quarter’s 33.9%

More of the SMME: South Africa has to get behind entrepreneurs

SA’s unemployment rate is more than 44%, In Indonesia, which embraces SMMEs, it’s 4.11%. Surely that’s the way to go

The Taliban has assured the world it will not reverse gains made in the country, especially by women.

Biden’s cowardly move will send Afghanistan back to the Stone Age

His protestations are fair enough, but he will always be remembered as the president who betrayed Afghans

Zambia's newly elected president Hakainde Hichilema at an election rally in Lusaka. This week, in a sixth attempt, he won the elections.

Zambia has taught us a lesson in democracy. Let’s learn it

In local elections, and soon in national elections too, the opposition parties do not have to be SA’s only alternatives