South Africa

Decreased spending on basic education leaves pupils and teachers in the lurch

By Mila Harding and Demichelle Petherbridge

South Africa

Budget 2022 reinforces inequality: Less for schools and healthcare, but tax breaks for corporates and taxpayers

By Daniel McLaren, Zimbali Mncube, Cheryl-Lyn Selman and Lindi-K Khumalo

Business Maverick

South Africa’s growth plan needs time to take root

By Ray Mahlaka

South Africa

Budget 2022: Cuts to essential public services are expensive and unaffordable

By Mark Heywood

Business Maverick

SA Revenue Service clamps down on illicit trade in alcohol and tobacco

By Neesa Moodley

South Africa

Godongwana’s maiden Budget finds a soft landing despite political theatre and protest on different sides of the parliamentary fence

By Marianne Merten

Business Maverick

Economists, business give a cautious thumbs-up to Godongwana’s maiden financial plan for SA

By Ed Stoddard

South Africa

Budget Day behind the cameras and next to the EFF’s wall of revolutionary noise

By Stephen Grootes

Business Maverick

Enoch Godongwana still faces an uphill battle in cutting the public sector remuneration bill

By Ray Mahlaka

Business Maverick

Godongwana sprinkles green shoots over JZ’s scorched earth

By Ferial Haffajee

Business Maverick

Godongwana delivers a little bit of this, a little bit of that, but no fireworks

By Sasha Planting

Business Maverick

Experts push Ramaphosa to implement basic income support for the poor

By Neesa Moodley