MTBPS 2025 REACTION GNU partners preach growth and jobs after avoiding another budget bust-up 5 min 0 By Suné Payne
PIVOTAL MOMENT Reversing austerity: How Budget 3.0 can restore educational integrity and infrastructure in South Africa. 4 min 1 By Mahfouz Raffee and Matshidiso Lencoasa
NO TO AUSTERITY ‘Cut corruption, not clinics. Tax the rich, not the poor,’ says Cosatu at Workers’ Day rally 5 min 2 By Julia Evans
BUDGET 2025 2.0 Voices against VAT: Protesters propose wealth tax, funding of SARS to alleviate financial burden on the poor 3 min 3 By Suné Payne and Victoria O'Regan
ESSENTIAL SUPPORT Early childhood development must remain a priority in revised 2025 Budget 4 min 0 By Daniel McLaren and Hopolang Selebalo
CORPORATE INFLUENCE VS URGENT NEED When desks become advertisements: Austerity’s price on South African classrooms 3 min 8 By Takudzwa Pongweni
FISCAL MISSTEP OP-ED Reserve Bank’s lowering of the inflation target could damage South Africa’s prospects for growth 5 min 1 By Owen Willcox
DANGEROUS LESSON OP-ED The vultures are circling South Africa’s starved education system 5 min 9 By Mahfouz Raffee, Stacey Jacobs and Aliya Chikte
JUST TRANSITION OP-ED Government's austerity policy must be confronted and state spending increased to realise promise of Climate Change Act 5 min 0 By Robert Krause
ISS TODAY OP-ED African protest politics – coincidence, correction or contagion? 5 min 1 By Ronak Gopaldas and Menzi Ndhlovu
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: Fiscal dysfunctionality, not austerity, got the ANC into this jam 4 min 0 By Tim Cohen
OPEN LETTER Sona 2024 provides a historic opportunity to set our country on a new course 5 min 0 By Institute for Economic Justice and 15 other organisations
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM OP-ED Leaving no one behind — comprehensive approach needed to end GBV and femicide in SA 6 min 0 By Matshidiso Lencoasa, Juhi Kasan and Thokozile Madonko
AUSTERITY FOLLY OP-ED Minister Godongwana, you misunderstand — social development is a labour-intensive sector 6 min 1 By Lisa Vetten and Thokozile Madonko
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT Budget cuts cost us, say anti-austerity protesters demanding universal income grant 5 min 3 By Jim Mohlala
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: Why have we lost Trevor Manuel’s stellar example of fiscal restraint? 4 min 6 By Tim Cohen
CASE FOR STATE SPENDING OP-ED The good, the bad and the growth dilemma – we can bolster well-being and reduce the cost of debt 5 min 2 By Liso Mdutyana, Zimbali Mncube, Kristal Duncan-Williams and Clotilde Angelucci
ANALYSIS Something different coming our way — twin reality checks of Austerity and Privatisation 4 min 21 By Stephen Grootes
AUSTERITY RED FLAGS Treasury’s planned budget cuts ‘dangerous to the economy and well-being’, say SA economists, civil society 6 min 7 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
AUSTERITY MEASURES Health minister warns of negative impact of 'cost containment' on quality of healthcare services 4 min 18 By Mark Heywood
TUESDAY EDITORIAL Paul Mashatile VIP assault highlights police protection an expensive excuse for thuggery and vanity 4 min 44 By Mark Heywood
