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Coalition takes wrangling over tax in the budget to parliament

Budget approval hangs in the balance and resistance to it is set to play out in the legislature’s finance committees

  • Emsie Ferreira
7 min read
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. (Photo: Mlungisi Louw/Gallo Images)
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Budget: How will Godongwana divide the nation’s piggy bank?

South Africa has a R2 trillion budget to fix the economy. It’s a big ask

  • Nkateko Mabasa
6 min read
Holding the line: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana (centre), who has been in the job for just 100 days, arrives for his mid-term budget presentation to parliament. He said growth, which relied on economic reforms, was imperative. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
BUDGET

Godongwana holds off on basic income grant decision, closes taps to state enterprises

Godongwana warns that the outer limits of the budget are non-negotiable as a debt cliff loomed

  • Emsie Ferreira
  • Anathi Madubela
7 min read