Pragmatic, pinched budget statement dampens growth hopes
/ 31 October 2024

Pragmatic, pinched budget statement dampens growth hopes

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana forecast 1.8% growth over three years, coupled with a bigger deficit, as debt service costs crowd out fiscal space

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Controversial government spending cuts ‘paid off’
/ 28 October 2022

Controversial government spending cuts ‘paid off’

Fiscal consolidation is drawing to a close as the public purse was boosted by commodities, but the treasury will probably continue exercising restraint

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Godongwana: Government can’t walk away from Eskom, Transnet
/ 27 October 2022

Godongwana: Government can’t walk away from Eskom, Transnet

The minister’s medium-term budget policy statement had to balance the fiscal risk of state-owned entities and the threat their collapse posed for the economy

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Transnet’s decline tears at tight municipal budgets
/ 26 October 2022

Transnet’s decline tears at tight municipal budgets

Inadequate rail capacity has pushed more trucks, and costs, onto municipal roads, which are steadily deteriorating

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Businesses count the cost of devastating KwaZulu-Natal floods
/ 13 April 2022

Businesses count the cost of devastating KwaZulu-Natal floods

Companies are having to deal with operational and supply-chain disruptions that come less than nine months after the riots in July.

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/ 18 October 2007

Plans to improve road integration in Southern Africa

The Department of Transport has adopted a plan of action to improve regional and national road integration, Jeff Radebe, the Minister of Transport, said on Thursday. Radebe was speaking at an African Union conference at KwaZulu-Natal’s Sibaya Casino and said the effort was part of the AU’s call to eliminate missing infrastructure links on roads.