Everyone wants a ‘growth budget’. But what does that actually look like? And is Budget 3.0 the answer?
The market is taking heart Treasury won’t be borrowing more, while higher fuel levies and more money for Sars will help plug the VAT gap
Enoch Godongwana’s budget speech looked like a leap forward for renewable energy. But take a deeper dive, and it’s less convincing
More than a decade of economic stagnation has limited ordinary South Africans’ access to essential goods, services and jobs. Will Operation Vulindlela be able to break this…
Budget 2.0 was finally tabled, with VAT still going up, but by only 0.5 percentage points a year over two years. The DA, however, won’t support this
Godongwana may have said the right things about cost containment in his budget speech, but he lacked detail about cost-containment targets
Is this simply a stale budget dressed as bold reform? VAT is rising, workers will take home less pay, and the economy is still at a tipping point
The time-strapped person’s guide to the budget
Having raked in billions from the two-pot withdrawal frenzy, Treasury is now thinking of enabling people to access their once-untouchable retirement pot
What the VAT standoff has done is force a reckoning over the trade-offs needed to balance South Africa’s books
It was mayhem in parliament on Wednesday as the National Treasury’s budget was pulled – hours after being released to journalists and economists
Non-consensual tax is a no-no, finance minister Enoch Godongwana has learnt the hard way.
We all need a budget limit, and so does the government – a fiscal anchor. But that doesn’t mean there’s no flexibility to respond to economic shocks
Enoch Godongwana will deliver his budget amid a flurry of demands from his own party for money at Transnet and elsewhere. How rubber will his arm be?
SA’s deficit – the gap between what we spend and what we get in – is likely to be ugly when Enoch Godongwana unveils next week’s budget
How health taxes can generate much-needed revenue for social protection
