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…
A liquidated company is fighting to get home affairs to pay the years old debt owed to them
The new director general played a key role in developing the Eskom Debt Relief Bill
The treasury has found a new way to throw its weight around. Who will it crush first?
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
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…
Dondo Mogajane is set to pursue new opportunities outside the public sector after his contract as treasury director general expires
Migrant workers are seen as contributing to South Africa’s unemployment crisis. But cutting them off threatens to throw the regional economy off kilter
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
The treasury is meeting rating agencies that identified the public service compensation as a threat to South Africa’s credit outlook
Treasury officials will model the effect of the grant on the fiscus if the need arises
A funding policy loophole seems to be encouraging feeding at the trough at the NAC
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
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…
The finance minister suggests money should be found from the cash-strapped justice department
DA leader John Steenhuisen has called for Ramaphosa to throw out what he termed an ‘outdated 20th century ideology of state control’
VAT should not be hiked, but a once-off levy on mineral resources or a solidarity tax seems likely
Busisiwe Mkhwebane ‘allowed her important office to be used to try and resuscitate a long-dead fake news propaganda fiction’, the court ruled
Public sector unions have cried foul over the government’s plan to freeze wages for three years and have vowed to fight back.
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
