How South Africa’s new carbon tax will hit petrol prices from June and beyond
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The Carbon Tax Bill will come into effect in from 1 June 2019 – bringing added costs for some South Africans.
The Carbon Tax Bill will come into effect in from 1 June 2019 – bringing added costs for some South Africans.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has addressed investors’ concerns over land expropriation without compensation.
One would assume the month that most excites farmers and agricultural role-players would be the one in which they harvest their crops, especially in a good season. In the case of SA that might not be true.
The South African agricultural sector has been facing severe headwinds over the past few years. It came in the form of policy uncertainty, drought in large parts of the country, devastating disease outbreaks, infrastructure constraints and persistent non-tariff barriers and other trade-related problems.
Farming in SA is undergoing a revolution, and not the kind envisioned by the Economic Freedom Fighters and its copycats in the ruling party.
Farm attacks and murders came under the spotlight earlier this month when South Africa’s top cop, National Commissioner Khehla Sitole, met with a delegation from the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) to seek ways of increasing capacity to effectively combat rural crime.