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Snip, snip: Mboweni eyes wage bill, other future spending cuts

Business Sarah Smit - 24 Feb 2021

Last year, the finance minister noted that increased government spending has failed to promote growth over the past decade

The inefficiency of the Gini coefficient

Opinion Shaun Read - 17 Jan 2021

To simplify complex inequality into a single statistic doesn’t address how to accurately assess (or reduce) South Africa’s large wealth divide

Social partners at Nedlac agree to help to turn Eskom around

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 8 Dec 2020

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

Ramaphosa announces R500-billion Covid-19 package for South Africa

Article Beauregard Tromp & Sipho Kings - 21 Apr 2020

President announces an ‘extraordinary coronavirus budget’ with R20-billion for healthcare and spending on the pandemic equal to 10% of national GDP

A chance to ‘reimagine South Africa’

Article M&G Reporters - 21 Apr 2020

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.

Social workers are an untapped resource to address the psychosocial effects of Covid-19

Article Shahana Rasool - 13 Apr 2020

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

Review: The pandemic could change politics as we know it. Here’s a guidebook

Africa Liesl Louw-Vaudran - 11 Apr 2020

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

‘Frustrated’ police resort to force

Article Lester Kiewit - 2 Apr 2020

Regulation uncertainty leaves slap-happy police and soldiers to decide when people should or shouldn’t be allowed on the streets

Dlamini’s departure ends a career characterised by incompetence and arrogance

Article Natasha Marrian - 11 Jun 2019

ANCWL president remains defiant and plays the victim to the end as she bows out as an MP

How state funds are sliced up

Article M&G Data Desk & Jacques Coetzee - 22 Feb 2019

At R375-billion, education is the fastest-growing expense on the government’s bill

Top NPA prosecutors lacked the will to probe foreign bribery cases, inquiry hears

Article Franny Rabkin - 22 Jan 2019

Senior prosecutor Chris Macadam detailed, to the Mokgoro inquiry, how he was sidelined from foreign bribery cases

Net1 subsidiary goes to court to compel Sassa to pay grants into its accounts

Article Athandiwe Saba - 26 Nov 2018

Moneyline claims that the South African Social Security Agency has moved beneficiaries to the South African Post Office against their will

Sassa: Get new cards or risk not getting grant payouts

Article Gemma Ritchie - 12 Nov 2018

The social security agency says it will not extend the December deadline to switch to the new Sassa cards

Editorial: If we don’t fix it, IMF may

Article Editorial - 2 Nov 2018

'We should fully expect that the IMF’s main focus would be our costly civil service and bloated, indebted and dysfunctional state-owned enterprises'

SA’s ‘welfare state’ is in trouble

Article Sabelo Mtantato - 28 Sep 2018

The government has to make tough decisions about social grants in the face of poor economic performance

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Snip, snip: Mboweni eyes wage bill, other future spending cuts

The inefficiency of the Gini coefficient

Social partners at Nedlac agree to help to turn Eskom around

Ramaphosa announces R500-billion Covid-19 package for South Africa

A chance to ‘reimagine South Africa’

Social workers are an untapped resource to address the psychosocial effects of Covid-19

Review: The pandemic could change politics as we know it. Here’s a guidebook

‘Frustrated’ police resort to force

Dlamini’s departure ends a career characterised by incompetence and arrogance

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Top NPA prosecutors lacked the will to probe foreign bribery cases, inquiry hears

Net1 subsidiary goes to court to compel Sassa to pay grants into its accounts

Sassa: Get new cards or risk not getting grant payouts

Editorial: If we don’t fix it, IMF may

SA’s ‘welfare state’ is in trouble

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