Tax and the broken social contract
Last year, the SA Revenue Service put out an advert to the country’s taxpayers.
March 12, 2021
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Last year, the SA Revenue Service put out an advert to the country’s taxpayers.
Denmark is suspending the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for two weeks as it investigates reports of some patients developing blood clots after being inoculated, days after several other EU countries suspended use of a specific batch of the vaccine.
Contrary to its public statements, government has admitted that the private sector is perfectly entitled to procure and administer vaccines. The problem is the private sector is too spineless to do so.
Criticism of the ANC was quite restrained until about five years ago when evidence gushed forth of rampant patronage.
“With PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody. It makes you believe in the Buddhist notion that everything is contained in everything else”
There are concerns of a second Covid-19 wave sweeping across South Africa. Many are looking at countries overseas which, after experiencing a second wave, have gone into further lockdowns.
The state of the nation is terrible. Government is committed to making it worse. Saint Cyril won’t stand in its way.
The passage through Parliament of the Expropriation Bill, which is likely later this year, will be a watershed moment in South Africa’s post-1994 politics, with vast implications for the economy.
Cape Town – Doctors in South Africa are now able to prescribe ivermectin as a treatment against Covid-19 in cases where urgent access for a patient is necessary and where a section 21 application has been submitted.
While the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape has chosen to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic head-on, and to secure its own supply of Covid-19 vaccines, the African National Congress (ANC) is once again clinging to outdated thinking.
President Cyril Ramaphosa should own up to his own government’s incompetence and recognise that the root of the disaster is the ANC’s obsession with state control
The SACP/ANC alliance has long wanted a wealth tax to help ‘discipline’ capital and advance the Freedom Charter’s goal of ‘sharing’ the country’s wealth.
When South Africans finally get access to a vaccine (who knows when), you have a right to refuse it. But that doesn’t mean refusing is either clever or morally justifiable.
A peer review of the paper on which most Covid testing is based has comprehensively debunked the science behind it, finding major flaws.
External peer review – RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at molecular and methodological level: causes false positive results.
The liquor industry is calling on government to provide some relief when it comes to specific taxes this year.
Breaking news on Tuesday evening was that President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa of Portugal had tested positive for Covid-19.
Two appeal court judges in Lisbon are at risk of being ‘disciplined’ for a 34-page ruling in which they justified their reasons for releasing four German tourists from confinement in the Azores
Humanitarian crises threatened to break out at South Africa’s busiest land border posts over the festive season
Nicholas Lorimer asks John Endres and Hermann Pretorius for their views on the SASSA grants disaster, the shortage of doctors in Gauteng and the bankruptcy of the Amathole municipality.