Monday briefing: a round-up of recent financial services news
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Tag: Cyril Ramaphosa
ConCourt judgment in Capitec vs SARS clarifies important VAT principles
The decision addresses the recovery of VAT on payments made under loan cover provided free of charge.
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South Africa is at high risk, but not only on the downside
The country is in a position similar to the one it was in before the apartheid system collapsed.
Is a basic income grant now ‘baked in’?
The challenge facing Treasury is financing a permanent grant while maintaining a commitment to fiscal consolidation.
Sarb wants answers from Ramaphosa’s lawyers by 8 September
The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) has asked legal advisers to President Cyril Ramaphosa to respond by September 8 to requests for further information as it probes the theft of foreign currency from […]
EFF’s Shivambu rebukes Kganyago for ‘no comment’ on whether foreign currency regulations were violated
EFF MP Floyd Shivambu lambasted South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) Governor Lesetja Kganyago for not responding to a letter asking the central bank to confirm or deny whether President Cyril Ramaphosa had disclosed […]
Fake intelligence report used to fire Gordhan and Jonas – Zondo report
Then President Jacob Zuma used a fake intelligence report as a pretext to fire Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, so that his and the Guptas’ agenda, including the capture of National […]
Face-off over vaccine mandates heats up
Lawyers acting for the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (Neasa) and four other business organisations have sent a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa objecting to mandatory Covid-19 vaccination. The four other organisations […]
Compulsory vaccination increasingly likely
Making vaccination compulsory to enter workplaces and certain public spaces seems a certainty if the statements from the government, business and labour this week are anything to go by. In a televised address […]
