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South Africa fears COVID-19 resurgence as cluster outbreaks flare
Officials in Africa's hardest virus-hit country are scrambling to contain infections after a flare-up was reported in the impoverished Eastern Cape province and adjacent Western Cape province last month.
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Mboweni welcomes MP support for bill aimed at auditing profession
The Auditing Profession Amendment Bill will now go before the NCOP for its concurrence before being sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa to be signed into law.
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Parly gives Division of Revenue Second Amendment Bill the green light
The National Assembly gave the Bill the green light earlier this month.
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Govt will not accept strings attached to loans from World Bank, says Mboweni
Speaking during a webinar organised by Bloomberg on Tuesday, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni was asked about progress on securing a loan from the World Bank.
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'Do we really need a national carrier?' Mboweni stands by tweets on SAA
Tito Mboweni took to Twitter last week, asking whether South Africa really needed a national carrier.
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Finance Minister once again commits to cutting Public Service Wage Bill
The bulk of government's spending cuts rest on striking a deal with public servants on a wage freeze and unions are not happy.
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Numsa slams 'disgraceful' Mboweni for his Twitter comments on SAA
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Sunday night asked his nearly one million followers on Twitter if the country needed a national airline.
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Late Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu remembered as honest & dedicated
Makwetu died in hospital on Wednesday at the age of 54.
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Finance Minister Tito Mboweni defends controversial Ranjeni Munusamy hire
Mboweni said Munusamy was given the job of community outreach officer – or political secretary – in his office because she had the required skills for the post.
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FFC warns of impact of proposed budget cuts to govt spending
The deputy chairperson of the FFC, Michael Sachs, described the cuts as ‘eye-watering’.
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DA demands apology from Mboweni over racial Tygerberg Hospital comment
The minister made the remark during his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) on Wednesday.
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ANDREW DUVENAGE: Mid-term budget offers little reason for optimism
Government has consistently failed to implement structural reforms which, despite being continually referenced, remain elusive, writes Andrew Duvenage.
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Civil servants to govt: We'll down tools if salary increases are frozen
COVID-19 and the lockdown have crushed many companies, leaving the already battered economy in a difficult position to recover.
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Unions angry over Mboweni’s bid for 3-year wage freeze for state workers
The trade unions have stopped short of calling Mboweni a liar, saying that his assurances that labour was being consulted about the three-year wage freezes were untrue.
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Health MEC blasts Mboweni for Tygerberg Hospital 'racially segregated' claim
MEC Nomafrench Mbombo said Tygerberg Hospital and staff who work there served the whole community and province.
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Give us one more chance, say SAA staff to citizens
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has announced that government has allocated another R10.5 billion to the broke airline.
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Business sector concerned about little being done to improve investor confidence
Although Finance Minister Tito Mboweni listed efforts to restore business confidence in the country the organisations said this was not enough with government failing on the implementation front.
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No further downgrades expected, don’t burn me at the stake if they do - Mboweni
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni told a briefing after his speech in Parliament that he expected robust discussions with ratings agencies in the coming days.
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SA economy in desperate need of private sector investment - economist
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni painted a grim picture saying the country's deficit has more than doubled from 6,4% of GDP in the 2019/2020 financial year to 15,7% this year.
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I'll stay in my lane, says Mboweni as he backs away from wage bill talks
Public sector unions are up in arms over the government’s plan to reduce the wage bill in order to help shrink the deficit and stabilise the country’s soaring debt.
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Inside the 2020 medium-term budget policy statement
Take a look at the key figures announced by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni during his medium-term budget policy statement on 28 October 2020.