SUSTAINABLE REVENUE OP-ED Wealth taxes are critical for financing public services and reducing inequality 5 min 1 By Zimbali Mncube
SME FORECAST South Africa’s SMMEs are flying blind in a changing global order 4 min 1 By Kara Le Roux
BUDGET 3.0 ‘We tread water for another year’ — this fiscal offering is a stopgap, not a solution 5 min 1 By Yeshiel Panchia
BUDGET 3.0 Enoch Godongwana’s budget: a delicate balance of debt control and social investment unveiled 4 min 3 By Ed Stoddard Neesa Moodley and Kara le Roux
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
BUSINESS REFLECTION Loaded for Bear: Budget 3.0 faces an ‘event horizon’ that could suck SA into a black financial hole 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
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
LEGISLATIVE RESET Budget 3.0: Godongwana sets new date amid political turmoil and economic uncertainty 4 min 4 By Yeshiel Panchia
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: Decoding the truth after SA’s Budget 2025 Rashomon 3 min 4 By Tim Cohen
GNU DISCUSSIONS DA wants to remain in GNU after ‘constructive’ ANC meeting 4 min 5 By Nonkululeko Njilo
POLITICAL POSTURING It was me! – parties scramble to take credit for VAT reversal 6 min 9 By Victoria O’Regan, Greg Nicolson and Nonkululeko Njilo
PUBLIC SCEPTICISM VAT deal means GNU stays — just in time as new survey shows South Africans are gatvol of the drama 5 min 0 By Ferial Haffajee
BUDGET 2025 It was a difficult process, says Mbalula on VAT withdrawal as uncertainty looms over budgetary shortfall 4 min 9 By Nonkululeko Njilo
BUDGET BOND-UP? DA claims win in Treasury VAT U-turn, says ANC ‘deception happens repeatedly’ in GNU 6 min 28 By Victoria O’Regan
