Cabinet Approves SANRAL Plan for E-Toll Closure and Debt Write-Off
Draft Rates and Monetary Amounts Bill: Treasury Invites Public Comment
Draft South African Police Service Amendment Bill Submitted to Parliament
Parliament Demands Intergovernmental Action Plan on R110bn Municipal Eskom Debt
Parliament Committee Calls for Prioritised Lifestyle Audits for SCM Officials
Draft VAT Amendments Issued for Valuable Metals Reverse Charge
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Given the recent tremors in world stock markets, future historians might regard the US dollar as an object of derision or a relic of some mad past. Either way, the world economy is headed for interesting times.
Afrikaner racism is disappearing, argues Leon Louw of the Free Market Foundation. This is contrary to the perceived state of the Afrikaner rural community. In It's place is a community committed to transformation and maintaining its rightful place in post-apartheid South Africa.
Expected amendments to tax on retirement savings due to come into effect in March next year are likely to be delayed, possibly by a year. The retirement industry is less than happy with the delays, which are reportedly caused by trade union concerns over social security, according to Personal Finance.
Durban-based Nav Chan started questioning FNB's eBucks rewards calculations. Weeks later his accounts were cancelled and he found himself listed on a secretive banking database operated by SA Fraud Prevention Services. Suddenly, his business started to take a dive. 
The liquidations business is pretty much a white-dominated affair, but that may change as a result of a new Department of Justice policy that will appoint trustees based on race and gender. That represents a huge loss of income for the incumbents, who are now challenging this policy, with the help of trade union Solidarity.
The ANC in Gauteng, with one eye on the electoral hammering it is likely to suffer by backing e-tolls, has broken with the national ANC. Meanwhile the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) says a growing number of Gauteng drivers are "de-tagging" themselves. It's safe to say that e-tolls' days are numbered. 
The Competition authorities have trained their eyes on 82 car manufacturers who are accused of collusive tendering. This follows a similar investigation into removal companies, according to Business Day.
The Competition Commission is to decide whether property lease agreements that give anchor tenants exclusive rights to sell certain items in a shopping centre are anti-competitive. This is after the SA Property Owners Association lodged a complaint with the Commission.
Zambia may soon have a white president in the form of Guy Scott, deputy to the incumbent but ailing Michael Sata. As The Economist reports, Zambians are less churlish about race than their southern neighbours. Scott has won widespread admiration for tackling the banks and other thorny social issues.
President Robert Mugabe spoke in front of a virtually empty hall at the United Nations last week. This is a far cry from his triumphant address to the UN Assembly in 1980, when Mugabe was seen as a saviour of Africa. Zimbabwe's status as a Pariah state is now confirmed in the eyes of the world.
The Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (FAIS) Act turned a decade old this week. By all accounts, it has fulfilled its promise of greater transparency and fairness in the marketing and sale of financial products.
The Supreme Court of Appeal has orderered Treasury to repay South Arican billionaire Mark Shuttleworth the R250 million in "levies" it charged him as he attempted to expatriate his funds. This is now headed for the Constitutional Court. 
Judge Thokozile Masipa has been the subject of ferocious attacks over her culpable homicide verdict in the Oscar Pistorius trial. This has placed the subject of judicial error under the spotlight, writes Trudi Makhaya. 
It seems the legality of the random Metro police stops on our roads is about to be tested in the courts. Apart from presenting police officers with opportunities for daylight robbery, these roads blocks result in traffic snarl-ups and huge inconvenience to the travelling public.
Public consultations into the future of e-tolling wrapped up last week with virtually unanimous agreement that the current user-pays system was not working and had to be replaced. Some Gauteng residents compared it to the hated apartheid-era pass book system.
Questions are now being asked as to whether President Jacob Zuma can survive the latest claims that he and the ANC received bribes from Frnech arms firm Thales in 2000. There are rumblings within the ANC that his presidency is a danger to the party's electoral hopes in 2016.
When Money Destroys Nations is a new book by two Johannesburg-based economists. If you ever had the idea that what happened in Zimbabwe cannot happen here, you owe it to yourself to read this.
BDS South Africa recently won a freedom of expression case against the City of Johannesburg and Continental Outdoor Media after its pro-Palestinian billboards were removed without notice, apparently following pressure from the Israel lobby. 
Insurance giant Discovery was ordered by the High Court in Johannesburg to pay the partner of murdered business tycoon Jeff Wiggill R11,5 million last month. Discovery had argued that Wiggill was involved in unlawful activities and there were suspicions that his murder may have been an assisted suicide.
Banks are resorting to grabbing money out of customers' accounts in settlement of debts but this is soon to become illegal. Here's how to handle the situation, according to Wendy Knowler at Consumer Watch.
Cracks are starting to appear in the ANC's commitment to e-tolls and the effect these are having on Gauteng's economic growth. There is a growing fear the e-tolls issue will hurt the party's performance in local government elections in 2016, according to the Saturday Star.
A new generation of Americans has been born into the 9/11 myth that has been used to create the warfare/police state, writes former President Reagan economic advisor and Wall Street Journal editor Paul Craig Roberts.
The Constitutional Court will rule this week on whether a pensioner from the Cape should be given leave to appeal against her eviction, according to Sapa.
An inquiry into the demise of African Bank is likely to turn some stones and reveal some worms. The last major inquiry into a banking collapse involved Regal, by the same Advocate John Myburgh who has been asked to look into African Bank. His brief is to investigate reckless behaviour, possible fraud and negligence.
A Johannesburg guest lodge was liquidated by Nedbank this week despite accusations of fraud and perjury. Why would the bank shut down a lodge over a R62,000 debt when its lawyers fees would be more than this? We decided to take a look.The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Acts Online. Acts Online accepts no responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the article, nor does the information contained herein constitute advice, legal or otherwise.
