The treasury is meeting rating agencies that identified the public service compensation as a threat to South Africa’s credit outlook
The private sector, experts say, cannot alone be entrusted with the important task of stopping South Africa’s unemployment tailspin
Covid-19 cast the economy adrift, but a less punishing new phase of the pandemic could set it back on track
Treasury officials will model the effect of the grant on the fiscus if the need arises
The new finance minister has a difficult task, but analysts say his political capital will help him hold a hard line on state spending
The South African Reserve Bank governor believes the state has to spur growth, restore the country’s public finances and arrest debt to escape the economic slump
The finance minister has said it’s not an austerity project. But the numbers and economists disagree