Budget 2025: A Tough Balancing Act for Beleaguered Finance Minister
Life is a game of pragmatic trade-offs; it was thus a realistic compromise by the Minister of Finance and his budget team to ...
2025 Budget Speech - A Value Added View
With limited options available, the government has placed reliance on increased VAT to raise additional revenue.
Godongwana defends Budget amid health crisis and VAT controversy
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana robustly defends the national budget in Parliament, addressing concerns over healthcare ...
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DA, EFF hit back at Godongwana’s Budget 2025 for failure to address SA’s jobs crisis
MPs on Friday had sharp words for Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on the contentious 0.5 percentage point hike in the VAT ...
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SARS accepts revenue estimate set for 2024/25 fiscal year
SARS commissioner Edward Kieswetter has accepted the revised revenue estimate presented by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.
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Budget Speech 2025: Electricity price hike, VAT increase cripples Mzansi
With VAT and electricity going up, South Africans will dig deep into their pockets to make end meets in the coming weeks and ...
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Youth Capital wants bold policy action
Acting Project Lead at Youth Capital Clotilde Angelucci are calling for a bold policy action which is a commitment in a ...
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Fikile Mbalula defends VAT increase, SA annoyed as SG says cutting ministerial perks won’t help
Fikile Mbalula stated that cutting ministerial perks would not have saved enough to fund the country’s R2.7 trillion budget, ...
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Budget Speech 2025: VAT increase triggers public uproar
South Africans reject the 0.5% VAT hike, as the GNU faces its biggest budget battle yet. The post Budget Speech 2025: VAT ...
Urgent need to address US funding gaps for HIV and TB services
Activists expressed disappointment that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana failed to account for the additional finances ...
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Long-Suffering Durban Residents Could Wait Years for End to Water Crisis
Finance Minister on Wednesday said construction of Mkhomazi Water Project, which includes a new dam, will only start in November 2027 Ngonyameni residents in Durban have been relying on eThekwini ...
Portfolio Committee on Education welcomes additional budget allocation for schools
The Education Portfolio Committee has welcomed the budget allocated for the Education Sector. Minister of Finance, Enoch ...