Budget Spending

Eskom prepares for worker ‘sabotage’: expected lay-offs delayed until after elections, police and army on standby

Countries thrive when supported by a well-resourced and value-creating higher education sector.

Auditor general Thembekile Makwetu says government entities wasted more than R2-billion in the past year despite an improvement in audit outcomes.

A former senior StatsSA official has broken cover to reveal deep internal divisions in the audit process for Census 2011.

The festive season always bears heavy on our pockets, so why not plan effectively for a change?

Gauteng health has struggled to pay key suppliers to provincial hospitals in the past financial year, but it dished out millions to a consultancy firm

Provincial health budgets are in the red, and are putting Trevor Manuel under intense pressure to ride to the rescue in his budget today.

Cut out the excess and stick to the essentials for 2009. What a budget really means is spending less than you earn and saving the balance.

An MEC facing corruption charges and having overspent the budget by more than R1,5-billion this year alone, KZN Health is penny pinching.

Counterpoint: Power over the budget means power over resources and therefore power over the scope and implementation of policy.

Can the Eastern Cape’s new Education Minister, Mahlubandile Qwase, ease the province’s chronic educational woes before next year’s election?