The quality of life of poor South Africans over the past 30 years continues to be ignored
The utility’s R400 billion debt has fed into the country’s 15-year energy crisis and low growth potential, which has been identified as a key credit weakness
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Nearly half of South African women are left out of the country’s labour force — and gender-friendly budgeting could fix that
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It could prove difficult for government to loosen its grip on the public purse, but economists say the current extraordinary circumstances require intervention
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Experts’ strategies for fixing the unemployment crisis range from devaluing the rand to a universal income grant or accepting debt from loans
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The court heard how the state is unable to make travel and accommodation arrangements for its witnesses because it cannot contact them reliably
The finance minister says more grants would mean the money would have to be cut elsewhere as he sticks to fiscal consolidation
Social grants are by far the largest facet of South Africa’s social protection system in terms of the number of people covered, according to the World Bank
The former minister of social development is alleged to have lied under oath
The social security agency has ‘lost’ R2-billion on unnecessary salaries and through wasteful expenditure
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A bunch of flowers on Mother’s Day expresses gratitude but mothers need more – recognise all their work, listen to them, include them in decision-making
A sharp increase in the number of social grant recipients after the introduction of the special grant during the pandemic has exacerbated the strained grant payment system
The finance minister has said it’s not an austerity project. But the numbers and economists disagree
Last year, the finance minister noted that increased government spending has failed to promote growth over the past decade
To simplify complex inequality into a single statistic doesn’t address how to accurately assess (or reduce) South Africa’s large wealth divide
The government’s partners at Nedlac have signed a social impact agreement to support the power utility, with a particularly focus on assisting it in accessing new capital to reduce its debt
President announces an ‘extraordinary coronavirus budget’ with R20-billion for healthcare and spending on the pandemic equal to 10% of national GDP
President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to announce the government’s long-awaited economic stimulus plan to deal with the effects of Covid-19. The key will be getting loans for a stimulus without ‘selling’ the country.
What the government seems to have missed is that we are facing not just a medical crisis, but a psychosocial predicament that may have far-reaching consequences
Jakkie Cilliers’s book about igniting a growth revolution in Africa has some timely lessons as we seek ways to mitigate the economic effects of Covid-19
Regulation uncertainty leaves slap-happy police and soldiers to decide when people should or shouldn’t be allowed on the streets
ANCWL president remains defiant and plays the victim to the end as she bows out as an MP
At R375-billion, education is the fastest-growing expense on the government’s bill
Senior prosecutor Chris Macadam detailed, to the Mokgoro inquiry, how he was sidelined from foreign bribery cases
Moneyline claims that the South African Social Security Agency has moved beneficiaries to the South African Post Office against their will
The social security agency says it will not extend the December deadline to switch to the new Sassa cards
‘We should fully expect that the IMF’s main focus would be our costly civil service and bloated, indebted and dysfunctional state-owned enterprises’
The government has to make tough decisions about social grants in the face of poor economic performance
Fix it, Cyril: The optimism that greeted President Ramaphosa’s ‘thuma mina’ call has faded as the economy has shrunk
‘How far can you fall in the three days that you stood in line, having been forced to borrow money to pay taxi fares to get to a collection point?’
​Social grant beneficiaries who draw their money at ATMs might have to wait a little longer to access it
For now, Cash Paymaster Services is prepared to charge Sassa R45 to pay social grants in cash, rather than its initial pitch of R66.70 per beneficiary
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