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/ 14 January 2009
The finance ministry has again invited the public to send their suggestions on what they would like to see included in the country’s 2009 Budget.
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/ 24 December 2008
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and his long-time sweetheart Maria Ramos are to tie the knot this weekend, a media report said on Wednesday.
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/ 8 December 2008
Reports that Governor of the SARB Tito Mboweni is going to become the leader of Cope have been denied by Cope officials.
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/ 4 December 2008
A government task team will be established to handle the effects of the global economic crisis, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel announced on Thursday.
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/ 1 December 2008
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel will deliver his 2009/10 budget speech on February 11, his office said on Monday.
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/ 1 December 2008
Growth figures confirm what we know but raise questions about the handling of our economy,
writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 27 November 2008
Trevor Manuel is signalling that he will stand his ground on economic policy. Comment by Nic Dawes and Lynley Donnelly.
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/ 20 November 2008
A week after parliamentarians handed in a private members Bill on feed-in tariffs, government has promised to have a strategy by February.
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/ 18 November 2008
S is not facing a recession, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday, despite major industrialised countries slipping into negative growth.
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/ 17 November 2008
The impact of the global financial crisis may be felt by world economies for years to come, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday.
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/ 12 November 2008
Current market movements are not rational and the rand’s value does not reflect inherent strength or weakness of the SA economy, Trevor Manuel says.
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/ 12 November 2008
Numsa has accused Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and SARB Governor Tito Mboweni of being key architects behind unpopular macroeconomic policies.
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/ 10 November 2008
South Africa’s Treasury said on Monday its economy was sound and it was confident its debt ratings would not be downgraded.
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/ 7 November 2008
The Treasury and the Reserve Bank have divergent views on inflation, but this will make little difference as to when we can expect to see a rate cut.
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/ 4 November 2008
The outcome of the United States presidential election is bound to have some effects on South Africa, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on
Tuesday.
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/ 30 October 2008
The South African government has earmarked R300-million in the foreign affairs budget vote to assist Zimbabwe’s struggling agricultural sector.
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/ 30 October 2008
Where the tax is likely to be targeted and how it will be implemented is unclear at this stage.
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/ 30 October 2008
Cabinet giving even more to education over the medium term, writes Primarashni Gower.
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/ 30 October 2008
Banking Crisis: Maya Fisher-French looks at how the global meltdown affects your pocket.
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/ 30 October 2008
And there won’t be one unless farmers get rain,
writes Lynley Donnelly.
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/ 30 October 2008
Trevor Manuel’s medium-term budget policy statement could have taken a more aggressive approach.
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/ 30 October 2008
The government has allocated an additional R170-billion to spending over the next three years, and next year state spending will jump to 29% of GDP.
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/ 30 October 2008
The South African economy was back on the policy frontburner this week with two major documents emerging from the ANC.
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/ 28 October 2008
Trevor Manuel has warned against adopting leftist policies after next year’s elections and said the global turmoil had introduced vulnerabilities,
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/ 25 October 2008
Politicians will have significant say over what
the new super SAPS unit investigates.
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/ 25 October 2008
The medium-term budget policy statement shows that robust policy decisions helped to weather the storm, writes Nic Dawes.
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/ 23 October 2008
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel reiterated he is willing to serve another term if asked to, his spokesperson, Thoraya Pandy, said on Thursday.
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/ 22 October 2008
Parliament’s finance committee on Wednesday approved the Adjustment Appropriation Bill with some misgivings.
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/ 22 October 2008
South Africa ”stoically” resisted presenting a budget to drum up votes ahead of an election due next year, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says.
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/ 21 October 2008
Opposition parties on Tuesday had mixed reactions to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
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/ 21 October 2008
High among the ”most pressing priorities” identified by Trevor Manuel on Tuesday was ”investing in the criminal justice sector.”
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/ 21 October 2008
The financial storm has arrived, said Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Tuesday in presenting his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.