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Higher electricity connection fees in South Africa? A good, and necessary, next step

Energy

Higher electricity connection fees in South Africa? A good, and necessary, next step

Seán Mfundza Muller and Mike Muller 11 Aug 2022

South Africa's employment tax incentive is not a success story

Youth Employment

South Africa's employment tax incentive is not a success story

Seán Mfundza Muller 30 Sep 2021

Eight months later, it’s unclear what the government’s strategy actually was when it imposed the strict lockdown. Shutterstock

Covid-19

Covid-19 in South Africa: A critical assessment of the first 90 days

Seán Mfundza Muller 8 Dec 2020

Expenditure cuts require a political settlement that has failed to materialise under South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa. Getty Images

Economy

A settlement with trade unions remains the best way forward for South Africa

Seán Mfundza Muller 11 Nov 2020

Parliament will almost certainly rubber-stamp Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s supplementary budget. Getty Images

Economy

South Africa's new budget cushions the coronavirus blow - but only briefly

Seán Mfundza Muller 26 Jun 2020

President Ramaphosa’s government is easing the lockdown because of unsustainable economic costs. Getty Images

Covid-19

South Africa's use of Covid-19 modelling has been deeply flawed. Here's why

Seán Mfundza Muller 8 Jun 2020

South Africa’s finance minister, Tito Mboweni, ahead of his budget speech. EPA/Nic Bothma

Budget Speech

Budget shows treasury is desperately short of ideas to fix South Africa's economic woes

Seán Mfundza Muller 28 Feb 2020

Most proposed solutions don’t address the systemic problems facing Eskom, in particular its parlous finances. Shutterstock

Energy

South Africa's energy crisis has triggered lots of ideas: why most are wrong

Seán Mfundza Muller & Mike Muller 23 Jan 2020

South African Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers the mid-term budget statement at parliament, Cape Town, South Africa, 24 October 2018. EPA/Nic Bothma

Markets & Investment

Tough times - and bad advice - are holding back South Africa's economy

Seán Mfundza Muller 30 Oct 2019

Under President Jacob Zuma the economy didn’t recover as much as it should have from the global financial crisis. Shutterstock

Markets & Investment

South Africa's finances are in bad shape. It's running out of time to fix them

Seán Mfundza Muller 6 Aug 2019

A barman using candle light as another rolling blackout affects large parts of South Africa’s biggest city, Johannesburg. Epa/Kim Ludbrook

Energy

Why restructuring South Africa's power utility won't end the blackouts

29 Mar 2019

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. Photo: Sebastiao Moreira

Markets & Investment

Why Ramaphosa's "new dawn" will break slowly for South Africa's finances

Seán Mfundza Muller 22 Oct 2018

Infrastructure & Utilities

The CEO of South Africa's power utility is back. Why the move can't be justified

Seán Mfundza 18 May 2017

SA's power utility wants to finance nuclear. This is a bad idea.

Infrastructure & Utilities

SA's power utility wants to finance nuclear. This is a bad idea.

Seán Mfundza Muller 2 Nov 2016