Apart from the commitment made to the urgent rollout of the vaccination programme, of comfort to debt-burdened consumers is the announcement...
Dr Andrew Golding 25 Feb 2021
Finance minister Tito Mboweni presented a "positive budget" under challenging circumstances, perhaps the most challenging over the last 27 years...
Samuel Seeff 24 Feb 2021
It was always going to be a tough budget given that finance minister Malusi Gigaba already signalled during his mini-budget late last year that there was a significant fiscal deficit that needed to be funded...
Samuel Seeff 22 Feb 2018
Despite growth picking up and a prediction that the medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) forecast will be revised downwards by nearly R70bn, the country still faces some serious fiscal issues...
Danette Breitenbach 21 Feb 2018
The key messages to take out of Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba's maiden mini budget presentation to parliament all point to a period of prudence for the property market...
Samuel Seeff 26 Oct 2017
The country's private sector doesn't usually flex its muscles when it comes to political matters, although it certainly showed its influence following the appointment of Des van Rooyen as finance minister...
Danette Breitenbach 1 Mar 2017
PwC predicts a 1% increase for all personal income tax brackets except the lowest...
Danette Breitenbach 17 Feb 2017
In light of the many challenges that the Logistics industry is facing, we wanted to know what Grant Fraser thought of the 2016 Budget Speech...
Cari Coetzee 3 Mar 2016
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan did an admirable job of balancing South Africa's books in his 2016 Budget, by providing a sound framework for the next year...
Rob Cooper 29 Feb 2016
Looking towards the 2016 National Budget to be read by Minister Gordhan on 24 February, it seems a repeat of the 2015 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement will not be sufficient...
Arthur Kamp 18 Feb 2016
