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FILE: A professional healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) treats a patient in a tent dedicated to the treatment of possible COVID-19 coronavirus patients, while another cleans the ward at the Tshwane District Hospital in Pretoria on 10 July 2020. Picture: AFP

Medium term budget policy statement

ANALYSIS: SA’s health system is on its knees: the budget offers no relief

By The Conversation

There was an expectation that government would make the necessary investments to improve the health system. Instead, the budget framework proposed further cuts...

  • Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his maiden Medium-term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on 11 November 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    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.

    265 days ago
  • Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his maiden Medium-term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on 11 November 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    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.

    270 days ago
  • 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.

    270 days ago
  • 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

    270 days ago
  • Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and his team ahead of his maiden Medium-term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on 11 November 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    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.

    270 days ago
  • Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his maiden Medium-term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on 11 November 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    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.

    270 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. Picture: @TreasurySA/Twitter

    COVID-19 and the SA economy in 2020: ‘We need to close the hippo’s mouth’

    Finance Minister Tito Mboweni this year noted the biggest contraction in the economy in nearly 90 years and the need to close the gap between government’s income and its spending – the hippo’s wide-open mouth.

    585 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. Picture: @TreasuryRSA/Twitter

    All eyes on Tito Mboweni ahead of mid-term budget review

    Tito Mboweni will today reveal the extent of the government’s tax revenue shortfall, estimated at more than R300bn.

    649 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in Parliament for his Budget Speech on 26 February 2020. Picture: GCIS.

    JUDITH FEBRUARY: There’s simply no silver bullet to fix SA’s economy

    South Africa talks far too much and does far too little. The time for endless discussion on economic policy must surely be over, writes Judith February.

    650 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. Picture: @TreasuryRSA/Twitter

    Mboweni seeks to delay tabling MTBPS by a week

    In his correspondence to the Speaker, Finance Minister Mboweni highlights the recent complex decisions taken by Cabinet in respect of the 2020/21 adjusted estimates.

    664 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. Picture: @TreasuryRSA/Twitter

    Finance Minister Tito Mboweni to table MTBPS on 21 October

    Tito Mboweni is expected to use the occasion to chart a way forward for the country’s economic recovery.

    669 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the second South Africa Investment Conference in Sandton, Johannesburg on 6 November 2019. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter

    Ramaphosa's R360bn investment pledges seen as good for his political capital

    However, independent political analyst Dale McKinley has cast doubt on whether the investment commitments would lead to job creation and other remedies needed to revive the struggling economy.

    1004 days ago
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    Call for taxes to be lowered, rather than increased for economy's sake

    Saica is making submissions in Parliament during public hearings on the Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement unveiled last week by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni.

    1006 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni at a media briefing after delivering the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on 30 October 2019. Picture: @TreasuryRSA/Twitter

    State spending cuts, higher taxes doing more harm than good, Parly told

    The coalition, an alliance of about 20 civil society organisations was among labour, economists and lobby groups who gave feedback on the Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement at Parliament on Wednesday.

    1006 days ago
  • FILE: Cosatu parliamentary coordinator Matthew Parks. Picture: @SACTWU/Twitter.

    Cosatu irritated by Treasury's attacks on public servants' right to living wage

    The trades union federation is among a string of organisations, lobby groups and economists making submissions on the Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement at Parliament.

    1006 days ago
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    ANALYSIS: Mid-term Budget underscores bad state of SA economy

    A major concern is that the government’s resolve is strongest on policies that are actually quite suspect.

    1012 days ago
  • FILE: Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. Picture: @TreasuryRSA/Twitter

    Mboweni urges Eskom to get it together before another bailout

    Mboweni said it’s time for state-owned companies to be weaned off state coffers, and that the government cannot continue to throw money at Eskom.

    1012 days ago
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