The national budget has become the point of contention among political parties with one of the reasons being the proposal of a 0.5 percent value-added tax increase from May. The ANC is confident of securing adequate consensus to pass the fiscal policy framework in the parliamentary portfolio committee today, as well as in the sitting of Parliament tomorrow. For more on this, I am joined on the line by…

GUEST: Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, ANC National Spokesperson

The national budget has become the point of contention among political parties with one of the reasons being the proposal of a 0.5 percent value-added tax increase from May. The ANC is confident of securing adequate consensus to pass the fiscal policy framework in the parliamentary portfolio committee today, as well as in the sitting of Parliament tomorrow. For more on this, I am joined on the line by&hellip;
GUEST: Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, ANC National Spokesperson

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The national budget has become the point of contention among political parties with one of the reasons being the proposal of a 0.5 percent value-added tax increase from May.

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We hear from the Creative Workers Union on why they don’t want the SA Post Office to be liquidated. This after the Post Office’s business rescue practitioners communicated the plan in a letter to the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, on Friday last week.

GUEST: Nathan Bowers, National Bargaining Coordinator for Creative Workers Union (CWU)

We hear from the Creative Workers Union on why they don&rsquo;t want the SA Post Office to be liquidated. This after the Post Office&rsquo;s business rescue practitioners communicated the plan in a letter to the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, on Friday last week.
GUEST: Nathan Bowers, National Bargaining Coordinator for Creative Workers Union (CWU)

Post Office: Possible Liquidation

Some of you may have witnessed the smell of rotten eggs that engulfed large parts of Johannesburg recently. The city has since confirmed that the smell was caused by hydrogen sulphide and sulphur dioxide in the air, and this placed a lot of people at higher risk of poor health outcomes and premature deaths. So how do we deal with this problem, moving forward? For more on this, we are joined by……

GUEST: Dr Jamie Kelly, Health Impact Assessment Team Leader at CREA 

Some of you may have witnessed the smell of rotten eggs that engulfed large parts of Johannesburg recently. The city has since confirmed that the smell was caused by hydrogen sulphide and sulphur dioxide in the air, and this placed a lot of people at higher risk of poor health outcomes and premature deaths. So how do we deal with this problem, moving forward? For more on this, we are joined by&hellip;&hellip;
GUEST: Dr Jamie Kelly, Health Impact Assessment Team Leader at CREA

The national budget has become the point of contention among political parties with one of the reasons being the proposal of a 0.5 percent value-added tax increase from May.

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