Thu 24 April 2025: The VAT increase will be scrapped, with the National Treasury confirming that the rate will remain at 15% from 1 May 2025. This follows weeks of consultations with political parties and a review of recommendations from parliamentary committees. The Treasury has acknowledged that keeping the VAT rate unchanged will leave a […]
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Thu 24 April 2025: Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp is releasing a feature, which will let users to browse channel photos, videos, GIFs, and links, and it’s available to some beta testers. This feature would allow users to save specific updates within a channel for easy access later, similar to how starred messages work in […]
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Thu 24 April 2025: Schools should be a safe environment, a place of learning where children can develop their potential. In South Africa, many public schools aren’t like this. Instead they are hothouses for teachers’ poor performance, financial mismanagement, assault and sexual misconduct. When cases of misconduct in schools emerge, they tend to follow the same pattern: public outcry, media […]
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Thu 24 April 2025: Amid the financial market fallout which followed Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement on April 2, the value of the US dollar has plunged. But while United States stock markets have largely recovered since then, the greenback – which typically gains in value during periods of financial turbulence – has continued its […]
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Thu 24 April 2025: The overwhelming majority of ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredi) in Israel still refuse to serve in the occupation army, the Knesset has revealed, according to Anadolu. In a statement issued yesterday, the Knesset said: “Out of 18,915 Haredi men issued conscription orders during the current enlistment cycle, only 232 have joined the army, 57 […]
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Wed 23 April 2025: Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has announced that headline consumer inflation decreased for the first time in five months due to lower fuel prices and softer tuition inflation. According to Stats SA, inflation was edging lower to 2.7% in March from 3.2% in February. “The fuel index softened by 0.4% from […]
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Wed 23 April 2025: The penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act. The European Union has fined Apple and Meta a combined 700 million euros (nearly $800m) for breaching the bloc’s landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA), the first time sanctions have been issued under the new regulation designed to rein […]
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Wed 23 April 2025: Amid escalating geopolitical tensions and trade conflicts, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky, has raised concerns about the growing fragmentation of cyberspace and the decline in global cooperation against cybercrime. He told Anadolu that nations are increasingly prioritizing their own digital infrastructure, opting for local data centers and data localization to keep […]
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Wed 23 April 2025: The Trump administration has emphasised its effort to combat what it describes as “anti-Christian bias”, closely aligning the push to policies that seek to protect people who work to block abortions, curtail expressions of LGBTQ identity, and bolster religious symbols and practices in public spaces. The executive order signed by Trump […]
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Wed 23 April 2025: China announced on Tuesday that it will update its undergraduate studies program by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI), local media reported. The Education Ministry is introducing 29 new academic majors in emerging fields such as AI and low-altitude economy. These new programs will be part of this year’s college entrance examinations, according […]
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