MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT MTBPS — Economic backdrop to the mini-budget is the brightest it’s been in years 4 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
FLOUNDERING SOE SA Post Office business rescue practitioners ask Treasury for R3.8bn bailout 3 min 5 By Ray Mahlaka
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
PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2023 SA Institution of the Year runners-up: The Constitutional Court and SA Revenue Service 2 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
UNBALANCED SHEETS OP-ED Making cents of gender-responsive budgeting — reflections on the 2023 Medium-Term Budget and Budget 2024 6 min 0 By Zukiswa Kota and Thokozile Madonko
PUBLIC SECTOR PAY Treasury adopts a new approach to rein in bloated public servants' wage bill 4 min 37 By Ray Mahlaka
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT Tax hikes, social grants, SOE bailouts – all the articles you missed on the mini-budget this week 1 min 0 By Daily Maverick
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT OP-ED MTBPS 2023 is a shoddy compromise that means death by a thousand cuts 8 min 13 By Gilad Isaacs, Zimbali Mncube, Kelle Howson, Kamal Ramburuth, Liso Mdutyana, and Hamadziripi Tamukamoyo
HEALTHCARE CRISIS Medical Day Zero - catastrophic budget cuts endanger Western Cape’s three academic hospitals 6 min 15 By Elsabé Brits
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT OP-ED Treasury has been bent to Ramaphosa’s populist agenda — the consequences will be dire 5 min 27 By Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT Godongwana boosts Municipal Disaster Response and Recovery grants as climate crisis takes its toll 3 min 0 By Onke Ngcuka
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT Treasury has again neglected South Africa's most economically vulnerable, say civil society organisations 5 min 0 By Lerato Mutsila, Takudzwa Pongweni and Naledi Sikhakhane
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT Social Relief of Distress grant (predictably) extended — with no funding mechanism 3 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: Why have we lost Trevor Manuel’s stellar example of fiscal restraint? 4 min 6 By Tim Cohen
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT MTBPS: Godongwana repeats tough love message to SOEs about bailout requests 3 min 0 By Ray Mahlaka
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT SA still has significant work ahead to address greylisting — FATF 2 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT MTBPS: Government to borrow more money as revenue dries up 3 min 1 By Ray Mahlaka
THE CONVERSATION Diabetes is South Africa’s second-biggest killer disease: hiking the sugar tax would help 5 min 7 By Karen Hofman and Susan Goldstein
MTBPS ANALYSIS No good budgetary choices in troubled times ahead of a crucial 2024 election 4 min 0 By Marianne Merten