The treasury is meeting rating agencies that identified the public service compensation as a threat to South Africa’s credit outlook
The government has finally started to recognise the importance of SMMEs in job creation, the business bounce-back scheme being a case in point
The last time the fuel price was not increased because of a change in either the fuel levy or the Road Accident Fund levy was in 1990
A portion of the government’s revenue overrun, the result of the commodity boom, will be used to pay provincial employees
The finance minister adds R426-million to employ 90 more staff for the Investigating Directorate, but most of it must be found through ‘reprioritisation’
The finance minister says Eskom’s debt problem may require some ‘fiscal intervention’, but only if certain conditions have been met by the parastatal led by André de Ruyter
Persistently high joblessness, the budget notes, has emerged as a key weakness in economic performance
The finance minister made a smallish exception for Denel in terms of funding but warned that the government wants to push ahead with plans to consolidate SOEs that no longer served a function
The Finance Minister delivers his maiden budget speech.
Applying above-inflation increases in excise is beneficial neither to government nor the beer industry, says South African Breweries