On the razor’s edge: Fiscal balancing act hinges on civil servants’ wage bill 

Marianne Merten
24 FEB

Exchange control relaxation suspended after confusion about application 

Sasha Planting
25 NOV

SA’s Economic Recovery, Take Two: Infrastructure and the lack of a silver bullet

Marianne Merten
10 NOV

SA’s Economic Recovery, Take One: Amid entrenched positions, hard decisions required on the public wage bill

Marianne Merten
09 NOV

Draft laws back up in crammed calendar dominated by must-dos, leaving key legislation dangling

Marianne Merten
05 NOV

Bailing out state-owned enterprises will come at the cost of social cohesion and protecting society’s marginalised

Jaynisha Patel
04 NOV

Fiscal reality check: SAA bailout, public servants’ wage freeze and service delivery under the spotlight

Marianne Merten
03 NOV

Land Bank push for more billions raises doubt about MTBPS commitments, including public wage chill

Marianne Merten
29 OCT

When political spin and numbers don’t add up: mini budget leaves most cold

Marianne Merten
28 OCT

Covid-19 grant extended to January

James Stent for GroundUp
28 OCT

Bond yields spike as Mboweni signals worsening debt outlook

Ed Stoddard
28 OCT

Despite spectre of debt spiral, Mboweni delivers a determined glass-half-full speech

Marianne Merten
28 OCT

No cheer except for SAA as Tito Mboweni delivers spending cuts, public wage freeze and signals tax hikes 

Marianne Merten
28 OCT

Tito holds the line but gives SAA R10.5-billion bailout

Sasha Planting
28 OCT

The point of no return: How close to a fiscal crisis is South Africa?

Tim Cohen
27 OCT

The global pandemic could become an opportunity to build an equitable, inclusive education system

Andile Cele
27 OCT

MTBPS: End budget cuts, stop the bleeding – and crack down on illicit financial flows

Jaco Oelefsen and Dominic Brown
26 OCT

Mboweni’s budget cuts are undermining the right to basic education

Jane Bornman, Hopolang Selebalo and the Education Working Group of the C-19 People’s Coalition
25 OCT

Mini budget: The state of South Africa’s broke(n)ness

Marianne Merten
25 OCT

The mini budget is the ideal opportunity to whack up tobacco taxes – lockdown has shown us the way

Savera Kalideen and Sharon Nyatsanza
21 OCT

Threading the budget through the eye of the constitutional needle

Mark Heywood
20 OCT