By Wawa Nkosi The mass deployment of fibre across South Africa has become a salient feature of the developing fixed-line broadband market. Traditionally, broadband data via fibre has been the domain of businesses who needed access to fast data connections [...]

By Dr Paula Armstrong National Treasury has recently announced that the implementation of the health promotion levy, which sought to tax sugar content in sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), will be delayed to April 2018. Treasury explained that before a tax would [...]

By Dr Paula Armstrong The NHI White Paper published in June 2017 proposes that tax revenue currently spent on medical scheme beneficiaries in the form of medical scheme tax credits be redirected towards funding the NHI.[1] In 2014/15, the total [...]