Cosatu: ‘Tobacco bill should go further in tackling illicit trade’

‘Any price increase above inflation is bad for the economy… the prices of goods and services go up because businesses pass on these prices to the consumers, which means that the households are hit hard almost twice,’ says Professor Sampson Mamphweli, South African National Energy Development Institute.

‘Criminal syndicates have infiltrated many, many departments in government across the country at all levels. If this is the way that the proponents of corruption are going to treat those who are trying to fight it, they're going to become more brazen,’ says Wayne Duvenage, CEO, Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse.

Fears for whistleblowers as a prominent attorney involved in prosecuting a high-profile Ponzi scheme is gunned down. And trillions of rands are set to change hands to younger South Africans, but are they able to manage it?

SA sends a strong message as it moves to ban plastic micro-beads from products. And why we’re still feeling the squeeze despite lower borrowing costs.

‘Citizens want to see change in Johannesburg and change will happen because we intervene physically. We don’t just send emails…we go into those areas and make sure things are resolved instantaneously,’ says Dr Snuki Zikalala, head of Joburg’s bomb squad.