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Ramaphosa to face Cosatu today over plans to slash public wage bill
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni last week proposed that the public sector wage bill be slashed by R160 billion over the next three years.
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Moody’s raises concerns after Budget speech
It said risks remain skewed towards a higher debt path given challenges in increased spending and persistent risks to growth.
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Cosatu challenges Ramaphosa to take charge of his Cabinet
The labour federation, which was the first formation within the ANC and its broader movement to nominate Cyril Ramaphosa as president, berated its limited influence in government.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Let’s talk about tax, baby
We need to normalise the tax conversation so that each year we’re not caught standing with our heads in our hands fretting about things that no one actually taught us, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
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Cosatu: Workers not scapegoats for SA's economic crisis
The organisation said it saw Finance Minister's Tito Mboweni's budget as a challenge to labour and has again rejected government's plans to claw back on the public wage bill.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: Tito Mboweni’s brave wager
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is acutely aware of what needs to be done to repurpose the state, specifically National Treasury, for its democratic mandate, writes Judith February.
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CARTOON: Who'll Budge First?
By Dr Jack & Curtis.
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RAF earmarked as one of the risks that could further widen budget deficit
Treasury said that over the past 20 years, increases of the RAF levy had typically exceeded inflation yet the liabilities of the fund had grown at a faster pace.
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With new budget, Lamola to 'ensure' NPA battle-ready to fight corruption, GBV
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni presented new budget allocations for the NPA, the priority investigative unit (the Hawks) and other law enforcement agencies, which were expected to tackle the massive backlogs in corruption cases.
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Mchunu hoping for positive talks with unions over public sector wage bill
The proposed cuts to the wage bill budget formed a key part of the national Budget Speech on Wednesday.
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Tax revenue highlights SA's dependence on small number of high-income earners
Just 125,000 people pay one-fifth of the R1.5 trillion the South African Revenue Services (Sars) collects in taxes.
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Saftu, Cosatu vow to fight govt plan to reduce public service wage bill
They said Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's budget shows government doesn't value workers and views them as easy targets.
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Malema hits back at Mboweni, says Eskom will never be a 'tired story'
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni was true to his word and didn’t say much about Eskom in his speech but did announce that government would allocate R230 billion over ten years to restructure the sector.
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Opposition parties say Mboweni did as much as he could with Budget
Most parties welcomed Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s decision not to burden South Africans with more tax.
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Taxpayers breathe a little easier as Mboweni announces no major tax increases
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said the tax break was one of the measures he hoped would jump-start the economy, but he had also warned that power cuts could stifle growth and that a stable electricity supply was the government’s most pressing priority.
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SA’s national debt is spiralling out of control, says DA’s Maynier
Reacting to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s 2020 budget speech, Western Cape MEC for Economic Opportunities and Finance David Maynier said SOEs again received bailouts despite not performing.
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Budget speech 2020: SA's health gets R200bn injection
This was announced by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday while tabling his R1.95 trillion budget in Parliament.
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Mboweni puts money back in taxpayers’ pockets
Taxpayers will get relief to the tune of around R2 billion because tax brackets will be adjusted to just above inflation.
