Experts offer their advice about what Finance Minister Tito Mboweni should focus on in next week’s budget speech
The hopes and dreams of many entrepreneurs have been dashed. We track some of the owners of SMMEs, who talk of losing everything they worked for
Salary arrears owed to SAA staff will be paid by 19 February, and the public enterprises department commits to reskilling affected employees.
Democratic Alliance drags the government to court, demanding a Covid-19 vaccination rollout plan.
VAT should not be hiked, but a once-off levy on mineral resources or a solidarity tax seems likely
To all intents and purposes, the ANC is the government. It is South Africa. The policies made at Luthuli House decide where we go. The corollary of this is that anything bad in the ANC quickly poisons our state and its institutions.
Industry experts predict the R10.5-billion from the treasury to rescue the airline may not be enough, but the rescue practitioners say the money is enough to ‘settle the sins of the past’
A whistleblower says the former boss of the auditing regulatory body is behind a campaign to have its new chief executive sent packing
The richest 10% of South Africans own over 85% of all private wealth and a once-off 25% tax would reduce government debt by more than half. Imagine what a five-year wealth tax could do
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
Replacing one of the most-loved cars in history, the new Defender pulls off the near impossible task of doing almost everything better
Public sector unions have cried foul over the government’s plan to freeze wages for three years and have vowed to fight back.
The mid-term budget policy statement delivered by the finance minister proposes cutting all non-interest spending by R300-billion.
Several struggling state-owned entities received extra funds after the medium term budget policy speech
Read the finance minister’s speech
The finance minister has to close the jaws of the hippo and he’s likely to do this by tightening the country’s belt, again.
The chickens have finally come home to roost: if we do not end the looting, it will end us
Expert panel presents a range of solutions to the economic crisis that include cost cutting, infrastructure spending and a solidarity levy
As the government continues to grapple with the troubles facing the airline, it would do well to keep on eye on the impending Denel implosion
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The scramble to find cash for an SAA bailout, Covid-19 grants and civil servants’ demands force postponement of mini-budget
According to the Presidency, the plan aims to expedite, in a sustainable manner, the recovery of South Africa’s economy
State participation is valid when the market can’t deliver what’s needed, such as roads and rail networks and telecommunications. But banks and airlines are private enterprise concerns
Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni has asked for a week’s delay in presenting the medium term budget policy statement.
The economic effects of the pandemic could hamper the government’s initiative to procure new generation capacity
The ANC has, until now, always rejected going to the International Monetary Fund, which underscores how bad our economic situation is
High levels of corruption and low levels of trust go together; citizens need to use every available resource to hold government to account
Loss of work is the last thing the beleaguered state enterprise needs
Transparency and accountability have lost currency in the treasury, and we are all the poorer for it.
Many government officials have been talking tough about dealing with rampant corruption in PPE procurement but the majority won’t even release names of who has benefited from the R10-billion spend
Reports of corruption, over-pricing and the delivery of sub-standard PPE have become the norm over the past five months as the country grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic
The IMF loan is given with false motivation — to provide political cover for entrenched neoliberalism and deep cuts in the public service
The loan, which is repayable over five years at an interest rate of 1.1%, comes with various self-imposed conditions such cutting the public wage bill and rationalising support to the state-owned entities