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 | LIPCO Law For All, a legal insurance company, has launched an online competition to get South Africans talking about what they would do as president of South Africa. The campaign, which has been running for four weeks, has garnered an impressive following with close to 2,000 entries featuring South Africans from all walks of life. Read more >>
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 | The Department of Environmental Affairs will this week lead the National Green Jobs Dialogue, which will serve as a platform for refining current government approaches to green jobs. Read more >>
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 | While the country has made strides in women empowerment, government says it would like to see more being done in the judiciary and the private sector. Read more >>
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 | The South African economy needs to undergo a significant structural change if it is to create jobs and employment, Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies said on Monday (7 April). Read more >>
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 | The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has said it will look into President Jacob Zuma's tax affairs following renovations to his Nkandla homestead. Read more >>
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 | Amanda Visser Almost 80% of South African business leaders who participated in the latest International Business Report survey conducted by Grant Thornton saw South Africa's tax system as one that encourages tax compliance. Read more >>
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 | The Tshwane municipality is going ahead with plans to build a government boulevard in Pretoria. Read more >>
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 | Mark Allix Industry body the Manufacturing Circle says Transnet's port terminals tariff increase of 9.25% across the board is "an unwelcome development for manufacturers"‚ as the sector depends on imports and exports for its competitiveness and to grow volumes. Read more >>
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 | President Jacob Zuma has submitted a response to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Max Sisulu, in relation to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's report on the security upgrades at his Nkandla residence. Read more >>
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 | Amanda Visser The South African Revenue Service (SARS) collected R889.7bn in taxes for the 2013/14 tax year‚ which is R700m more than the revised estimate announced in the February budget. Read more >>
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 | Razina Munshi The Ports Regulator of SA has again threatened to claw back funds from Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) in future port tariff decisions if the utility fails to spend its capital expenditure budget and plug its high vacancy rate. Read more >>
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 | Evan Pickworth In a move that could turn the brain drain into a brain gain, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants' (Saica) Thuthuka development model is set to be exported to other African countries and developing nations, after receiving the backing of the over-arching global accounting body and the World Bank. Read more >>
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 | Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says tax revenue remains "buoyant" despite a global economic turmoil that has tested South Africa's finances. Read more >>
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 | Mark Allix Ansys‚ an AltX-listed engineering company‚ has been awarded a R188m Transnet contract for the supply of an integrated dashboard display system for locomotives. Read more >>
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 | Ed Herbst 'I am prepared to apologise for the lack of service rendered to address the crime problems in Khayelitsha' - Western Cape police commissioner Lieutenant-General Arno Lamoer testifying before the O'Regan/Pikoli Khayelitsha Police Commission of Inquiry 1/4/2014. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: The Department of Environmental Affairs will this week lead the National Green Jobs Dialogue, which will serve as a platform for refining current government approaches to green jobs. Read more >>
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 | The long-serving and trusted white personal aide of Nelson Mandela will publish her memoirs in June about how her life was transformed by South Africa's late anti-apartheid icon, Penguin Books announced on Thursday. Read more >>
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 | Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) hold tremendous potential for government to increase effective support for struggling entrepreneurs in South Africa, according to a new report presented to the National Treasury, the Jobs Fund, and the dti. Read more >>
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 | The Gauteng Department of Education will take disciplinary action against Dikgabane Primary School after it found the school guilty of negligence following the death of a Grade R pupil in February. Read more >>
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 | African leaders in Correctional Services have been urged to spare no effort in transforming the prisons inherited from colonial and repressive regimes into correctional facilities that rehabilitate offenders. Read more >>
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 | Meropa is offering an Election Observers Tour of South Africa to local and international participants who would like an unofficial observers' tour with four experienced South African political commentators. Read more >>
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 | By the 5pm cut-off on Tuesday, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) had received in excess of 40 submissions regarding objections to candidates of political parties for the upcoming national and provincial elections. Read more >>
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 | NEWSWATCH: Business Report senior journalist Donwald Pressly has been fired for seeking political office with the Democratic Alliance, reports news24, but he plans to appeal his dismissal, reports Mail & Guardian. Read more >>
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 | KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: The head of the European Union's Afghan election observer mission condemned the suspension of mobile text messaging services across the country, saying it threatened the transparency of the poll. Read more >>
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