The treasury forecasts 3.3% growth, but warns this will fall to 1.6% if the fledgeling vaccination programme fails to stem successive Covid waves
Business Unity South Africa is eager to talk to its social partners at Nedlac about how the spiralling public-sector wage bill can be tamed. And the organisation says these talks need to happen soon
Several struggling state-owned entities received extra funds after the medium term budget policy speech
Watch: The finance minister delivers the budget less than two weeks after the president’s state of the nation address