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/ 18 February 2024

The Fiscal Cliff | Shallow state purse deepens jobs crisis

In this instalment of The Fiscal Cliff – a Mail & Guardian series on how South Africa’s budget has been shaped – Sarah Smit considers the intimate link between the country’s ultra-high unemployment rate and austerity

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By Sarah Smit

National

/ 16 February 2024

Home Affairs blunder could cost taxpayers R500m

A liquidated company is fighting to get home affairs to pay the years old debt owed to them

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By Khaya Koko

Business

/ 10 August 2023

Duncan Pieterse takes treasury top job

The new director general played a key role in developing the Eskom Debt Relief Bill

By Sarah Smit

Opinion

/ 8 May 2023

Treasury debt relief tests what happens when goodwill is conditional

The treasury has found a new way to throw its weight around. Who will it crush first?

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 15 April 2022

Treasury needs an insider director general

But the department’s already reduced ranks may make it difficult to find someone with the technical know-how and clout to replace Dondo Mogajane

By Sarah Smit

Editorial

/ 7 April 2022

Editorial: Praise for treasury’s Mogajane, but his replacement faces a battle

When Dondo Mogajane became director general of the national treasury, question marks were raised about his ability to defend the institution. Five years later, it was a war well fought

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Business

/ 7 April 2022

Treasury’s most senior official to leave in June

Dondo Mogajane is set to pursue new opportunities outside the public sector after his contract as treasury director general expires

By Sarah Smit

Africa

/ 18 March 2022

New migration policy could cut remittances lifeline

Migrant workers are seen as contributing to South Africa’s unemployment crisis. But cutting them off threatens to throw the regional economy off kilter

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By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 10 March 2022

‘SA is heading towards another lost decade’

Last month’s budget was positive about the trajectory of the economy but near-term growth projection are only slightly higher than during South Africa’s darkest years

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By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 24 February 2022

Light at end of tunnel, but wage bill could blow the budget

The treasury is meeting rating agencies that identified the public service compensation as a threat to South Africa’s credit outlook

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 25 August 2021

Basic income grant not on treasury’s watchlist — yet

Treasury officials will model the effect of the grant on the fiscus if the need arises

By Sarah Smit

Friday

/ 6 May 2021

National Arts Council surplus policy ‘breaks Act’

A funding policy loophole seems to be encouraging feeding at the trough at the NAC

By Lloyd Gedye

National

/ 6 May 2021

Zondo commission gets R75-million, but still needs more funding

The money was found within the existing budget of the justice department after the treasury said it was not prepared to make a further allocation

By Emsie Ferreira

National

/ 3 March 2021

We will find resources to ensure the Zondo commission completes its work — Lamola

Justice Minister Ronald Lamola says his department will ensure the state capture commission is afforded the financial resources to complete its work, despite the treasury’s uncertainty

By Tshegofatso Mathe

National

/ 25 February 2021

Mboweni says no more Zondo funding as court extends commission’s lifespan

The finance minister suggests money should be found from the cash-strapped justice department

By Emsie Ferreira

Politics

/ 8 February 2021

Sona: Ramaphosa needs to choose state before party — Steenhuisen

DA leader John Steenhuisen has called for Ramaphosa to throw out what he termed an ‘outdated 20th century ideology of state control’

By Lizeka Tandwa

Business

/ 25 January 2021

Funding a vaccine will tax our limits

VAT should not be hiked, but a once-off levy on mineral resources or a solidarity tax seems likely

By Sarah Smit

National

/ 7 December 2020

High court sets aside public protector report on Gordhan and Sars ‘rogue unit’

Busisiwe Mkhwebane ‘allowed her important office to be used to try and resuscitate a long-dead fake news propaganda fiction’, the court ruled

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 29 October 2020

State’s wage freeze sparks apoplexy

Public sector unions have cried foul over the government’s plan to freeze wages for three years and have vowed to fight back.

By Thando Maeko and Tshegofatso Mathe

Business

/ 17 August 2020

Government kickstarts the National Infrastructure Fund

Treasury, the department of public works’ Infrastructure in South Africa, and the DBSA have signed a memorandum of agreement that mandates the bank to establish and manage the fund

By Tshegofatso Mathe

Coronavirus

/ 6 August 2020

The PPE scandal that the Treasury hasn’t touched

Many government officials have been talking tough about dealing with rampant corruption in PPE procurement but the majority won’t even release names of who has benefited from the R10-billion spend

By Sabelo Skiti, Thanduxolo Jika and Sarah Smit

Coronavirus

/ 5 August 2020

Treasury presents Covid-19 corruption action plan

Reports of corruption, over-pricing and the delivery of sub-standard PPE have become the norm over the past five months as the country grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic

By Thando Maeko and Sarah Smit

Business

/ 31 July 2020

OECD urges SA to reform to recover from pandemic effects

The OECD predicts a 7.5% contraction in South Africa’s GDP, with an 8.2% contraction if a second wave of Covid-19 is not avoided

By Thando Maeko

Business

/ 24 June 2020

SA’s economy expected to contract by 7.2% in 2020

The economy is in a depressed state, and Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has called for cautious use of the country’s finances to avert plunging into a sovereign debt crisis

By Tshegofatso Mathe and Thando Maeko