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All the ups & downs of the Budget speech 2020
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivered the 2020 Budget Speech and it was a mix of good and bad news.
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LIVE BLOG: Personal income tax relief & no VAT increase get thumbs up from SA
Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni delivers his second budget speech on Wednesday.
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WATCH LIVE: Tito Mboweni's Budget Speech 2020
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is delivering his Budget Speech in the National Assembly.
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Mboweni urged to give detailed programme on plans to stimulate economy
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is to address the nation in Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, at a time when the noose is tightening around consumers' necks, unemployment is at dangerously high levels and state-owned-entities are on life-support.
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Mboweni likely to hike VAT, say economists
The consequences of such a decision would harm the economy on the one hand while granting the governemtn some much-needed relief on the other.
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Mboweni may shed light on plan to allow cannabis industrialisation
More details are expected on Wednesday on government's plan to allow for the legal processing of cannabis after confirmation from both the president and the Gauteng premier.
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Govt has little space to manoeuvre when it comes to e-tolls: economists
Once again, there's much anticipation that Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will make an announcement scrapping e-tolls when he delivers his Budget Speech on Wednesday afternoon.
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Finance Minister Mboweni expected to deliver gloomy Budget Speech
Shortfalls in revenue collection mean Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will have to announce cuts in government spending but he must also tread cautiously so as not to affect service delivery.
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Govt attempts to get out of 2018 wage agreement with civil servants
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is under pressure from ratings agencies, among others, to decrease the Public Service Wage Bill that’s been a burden on government spending for years now.
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DA says proposed bill will help stabilise SA's national debt
The DA's finance spokesperson Geordin Hill-Lewis said that the introduction of the Fiscal Responsibility Bill would limit the amount of new government borrowing and ultimately protect South Africans from poor economic decisions.
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Activists demanding detailed plans on govt's job creation plan
With sluggish economic growth and an unemployment rate of 29.1%, activists said that the country was facing a socio-economic emergency.
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CDE calls on govt to present coherent plan to deal with public expenditure
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is scheduled to table the Budget on Wednesday in Parliament.
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CARTOON: #Budget2020 - Aloe Point
By Dr Jack & Curtis.
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Govt faces wage bill problem as public servants snub early retirement packages
EWN has established that only 4,600 people applied for the early retirement package, but it’s possible that only a portion of those applicants might ultimately qualify for the deal.
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AA: Increasing VAT, fuel & road levies 'could be catastrophic' for citizens
Tito Mboweni is set to deliver his second Budget Speech on Wednesday in Parliament, where he will announce - among other things - any increases that will affect the public.
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Power to the people: Soweto group threatens shut down over electricity payments
The committee held a public rally in Rockville on Sunday to challenge their R18 billion electricity bill from Eskom.
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Sovereign wealth fund & state bank coming, Ramaphosa reveals in Sona
President Cyril Ramaphosa said more details on these plans and steps to fix the country’s precarious public finances would be announced by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni when he delivered his Budget Speech in two weeks’ time.
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Cosatu says govt, business, social partners on board with plan to save Eskom
Cosatu wants a special purpose vehicle put together to include the Unemployment Insurance Fund, Public Investment Corporation, the Development Financing Institution and Development Bank of Southern Africa to take over 50% of Eskom’s over R400 billion debt.
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KZN Finance MEC Pillay to deliver maiden budget speech
Ravi Pillay was set to use the occasion to outline his fiscal vision for KZN over the next five years.
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SA could run out of money by 2042, Parliament told
The head of the Fiscal Cliff Study Group, Professor Jannie Rossouw, says South Africa’s position has deteriorated since last year’s Budget.
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Higher SA spending limit will not weaken policy credibility - Moody's
Moody’s, the last of the big three ratings agencies to rate South Africa in investment grade, is scheduled to review that rating next month.
