The National Treasury published the Draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill, 2020 (Draft Tax Bill) for public comment. One of the more contentious proposals in the Draft Tax Bill relates to the ability of people emigrating from South Africa to access amounts in their pension preservation fund, provident preservation fund and retirement annuity fund (retirement funds) when they leave...
Joon Chong and Wesley Grimm 8 Sep 2020
As the Zimbabwe elections take place today, 31 July 2013, three Al Jazeera reporters from TV and online, Haru Mutasa (@harumutasa), Mohammed Adow (@Moadow) and Azad Essa (@AzadEssa) will be covering the happenings and keeping the public up to date.
31 Jul 2013
KHARTOUM, SUDAN: Sudan's cash-starved government on Sunday (30 December) ordered a doubling of the minimum wage after months of rising prices left consumers struggling to make ends meet.
31 Dec 2012
CAIRO: Twitter was an early casualty. Then Facebook access became spotty. But when the internet itself went down, Egyptian pro-democracy activists knew their protests were having an effect. This report was dictated on landline phone from Cairo to the IPS office in London.
Cam McGrath 31 Jan 2011
Modou Lamin Jaiteh, Banjul correspondent for the Pan African News Agency (PANA), an African news wire service based in Senegal, and former staff reporter of The Point newspaper, based in Banjul, has gone into hiding for fear of his life.
5 Jul 2007