MTBPS Mini budget - Some SOE bailouts, R350 grant extension as numbers signal improved debt and better 2023 outlook 5 min 0 By Marianne Merten
MTBPS PREVIEW ANALYSIS Godongwana has to juggle SOEs, social grants and public sector wages in a tight socioeconomic and political situation 5 min 2 By Marianne Merten
REPORTER'S PARLIAMENTARY NOTEBOOK After an acrimonious, pressure-cooker election, Covid-19 lockdown year – 2021, it’s a wrap 5 min 0 By Marianne Merten
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET 2021 ANALYSIS Cutting South Africa’s debt burden down to size: Finance Minister Godongwana holds predecessor’s course 5 min 6 By Marianne Merten
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET 2021 Finance Minister Godongwana holds the line, says priority is getting South Africa’s financial house in order 5 min 5 By Marianne Merten
#MTPBS2019 Mboweni claims winter is over — but the political games definitely are not 6 min 0 By Marianne Merten
MEDIUM TERM BUDGET 2019 The bare cupboard and the hard work – and political decisions – now needed to fill up South Africa’s larder 6 min 0 By Marianne Merten
PARLIAMENT MPs give Eskom and Mboweni free hand in R59-bn Special Appropriation Bill bailout 4 min 0 By Marianne Merten
PARLIAMENTARY NOTEBOOK Quality of oversight suffers as recesses slash parliamentary calendar 5 min 0 By Marianne Merten
Parliamentary Notebook SAA gets its billions – and departments their extra funding – as Parliament ticks off another item on its long to-do list 6 min 0 By Marianne Merten
PARLIAMENTARY NOTEBOOK And here is the (British) news of a South African fuel price drop, and other matters economic 2 min 0 By Marianne Merten
The Moyane Contagion SARS – R20bn VAT refund backlog wipes out revenue expected from the VAT hike 5 min 0 By Marianne Merten
MID-TERM BUDGET ANALYSIS Mr Hard-edged Honesty Mboweni offers mostly blood, toil, sweat and tears. Did we mention Honesty? 5 min 0 By Marianne Merten
MEDIUM-TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT Mboweni’s maiden medium-term Budget speech a tricky juggle for a politician, businessman, farmer and Reserve Bank governor 6 min 0 By Marianne Merten
Parliamentary Monitoring Group The Week: Mini-budget, Debates and Hearings top the agenda 3 min 0 By Parliamentary Monitoring Group
TITO & THE MARKETS SWING BAND ‘Known quantity’ Mboweni welcomed, if not necessarily warmly, as fifth finance minister in three years 6 min 0 By Marianne Merten
PARLIAMENTARY NOTEBOOK Government’s longest march towards recovery starts with Gigaba’s new visa regime – with a mountain still to climb 5 min 0 By Marianne Merten
