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Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers the 2025 Budget. Photo: Jeffrey Abrahams/Gallo Images
BUDGET REVIEW

Mid-term budget: Godongwana introduces early retirement plan

An amount of R11 billion will be set aside to allow people early exit from public service

  • Anathi Madubela
3 min read
The former spy boss responded to being incriminated at the Zondo commission by threatening to expose the president. (Paul Botes)
ANC

Fraser vs Nxele in court — again

The suspended KZN prisons boss was barred from entering his office by armed security staff last week, at the behest of his national counterpart

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Effective civil service is critical to good governance, economic development, and executing the social contract between government and the governed. (Reuters)
ACCRA

Civil servants are the foundation of any good democracy

Good governance is not just about politicians, as Ghana’s elections demonstrate

  • Yawa Hansen-Quao
4 min read
The new apartheid is decentralised, encrypted in algorithms, and cloaked in the language of economic rationality and legal formalism and it’s not only in South Africa. Photo: File
ARCHITECTS OF POVERTY

South Africa must flatten the inequality curve

We cannot return to the pre-coronavirus crisis of unemployment, inequality and poverty. There is a moral incentive for the rich to give up some of their wealth and for the…

  • Jairam Reddy
7 min read
Public-minded: Expenditure on government staff rose
BUDGET 2015

Nene hits public sector pay

The minister’s intentions to contain expenditure may be undermined by strikes in the civil service.

  • Lynley Donnelly
5 min read
Unless Zuma focuses on repairing the civil service
CABINET MINISTERS

Civil servants matter more than ministers

South Africa needs an excellent delivery-driven public service that is free of political patronage.

  • Moshoeshoe Monare New
8 min read