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South Africa faces a slowly worsening chronic fiscal crisis
An improved fiscal outlook that accommodates spending pressures is encouraging but there are caveats.
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Masondo: Debt-service costs preventing us from improving basic needs
David Masondo was speaking at a joint meeting of Parliament’s finance and appropriations committees on Tuesday.
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Minister Godongwana’s failure to show up in Parly angers the opposition
The Democratic Alliance described Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s absence from Tuesday’s briefing as completely unacceptable.
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Godongwana refuses to give in to pressure to increase govt expenditure
Sars collected an extra R120 billion thanks to running commodities prices, but Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana used his first budget address to again commit the government to more prudent spending.
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State has to shift infrastructure funds for public wage bill - Godongwana
Before tabling his medium-term budget policy statement on Thursday, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said the public wage would be subject of talks with unions.
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Godongwana: SOCs have been badly managed, no additional funding in latest budget
Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana said that although government directed more than R290 billion to bail out state-owned companies since 2013, SOC's have been badly managed and have failed to deliver. Godongwana said that in this year's medium-term budget speech no additional funding is provided for state-owned companies.
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27.8 million South Africans are social grant recipients
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana tabled his maiden medium-term budget policy statement on 11 November 2021. Godongwana said the country’s total spending on the social wage is also very high, with this amount growing from R860 billion in 2018/19 to R1.1 trillion in 2021/22. #Treasury #MTBS #MTBS2021
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MTBPS: SA economy to grow by 5.1% in 2021 & R450bn allocated to municipalities
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said there needs to be economic reform, but has cited better economic growth for this year with the country recovering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Godongwana: No more easy bailouts, just 'tough love' for SOEs
The new finance minister delivered his maiden Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on Thursday afternoon with state-owned entities listed as a fiscal risk in the budget documents.
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WATCH LIVE: Finance Minister Godongwana delivers medium-term budget speech
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is delivering his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS).
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Some analysts expect good news ahead of Godongwana's maiden budget speech
Analysts expect some good news in the form of a decrease in the debt to GDP ratio and an overshoot in revenue collection thanks to running commodities prices.
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Economist not expecting crucial answers to policy questions in MTBPS
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will table the policy statement amid high expectations of announcements about the status of social spending and the mooted basic income grant or something familiar.
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Increase the unemployment grant: Civil society to Godongwana ahead of MTBPS
Organisations such as Cry of the Xcluded and the SA Federation of Trade Unions say while they expected very little for the impoverished from the statement, the least Treasury could do was maintain some of the social assistance grants as was.
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Support the vulnerable, says the DA to Godongwana ahead of MTBPS
Deputy finance spokesperson Dion George and fellow MP Ashor Sarupen also detailed the DA’s alternative budget policy statement.
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Minister Godongwana says crime is threatening economic growth
Minister Enoch Godongwana said he had a meeting with the police minister recently where he expressed his concern about criminality saying this had a direct bearing on investor activity.
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Govt considers replacing R350 COVID grant with another form of relief
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said the special relief of distress grant could be replaced by another similar measure.
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YONELA DIKO: Can Godongwana succeed where Mboweni failed?
The challenges Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana faces are the results of multiple blows over years to our economy, writes Yonela Diko.
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Busa backs Finance Minister Godongwana's view on basic income grants
The country has been debating whether it would be feasible to introduce an income grant since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced government would probe the issue when delivering his state of the nation address earlier this year.
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‘I am being discredited,’ says new Finance Minister Godongwana
President Cyril Ramaphosa swore in new ministers and deputy ministers into their roles at the Union Buildings on 6 August 2021. Among the list was new Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, who said criticism against him by raising past issues was only to discredit his name. #CabinetReshuffle #CyrilRamaphosa #EnochGodongwana #MondliNgungubele
