Financial Advantages of Cannabis Legalization
As of today, the legalization of cannabis for medical and recreational purposes is still widely debated by different governments. Only Uruguay and Canada fully...
SARS intensifying revenue collection efforts
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is intensifying its effort to identify and bring to book tax dodgers.
This comes after revelation that the revenue...
Reserve Bank seeks public comment on key banks in SA
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has invited the public to comment on the discussion paper on the proposed methodology to determine systemically important...
South Africa: Measures to trim unsustainable public sector wage bill by...
Allowing public servants to retire early and reviewing the diplomatic missions staffing structure are some of the measures government will take to trim the...
Budget: More bitter medicine, prognosis worsens
The budget has brought more bitter medicine to the country's taxpayers, while the prognosis worsened with the announcement that the initial budget deficit forecast...
Budget speech: Bailouts and NHI remain a grave concern
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s budget speech for the 2019/2020 financial year indicates an attempt to rescue South Africa’s floundering economy, as well as state...
South Africa’s finance minister delivers a budget designed to steady the...
South Africa is supposed to be a secular state, but one can perhaps forgive Tito Mboweni, the Minister of Finance, for quoting numerous biblical...
Increased allocations in grants, education and health
The National Treasury will in the 2019/20 financial year set aside R567 billion for social grant payments, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni announced during the...
Is South Africa on the cusp of a major shift in...
South Africans go to the polls this year. And for the first time the country’s energy future is becoming a significant subject of contestation.
This...
Panel of experts to assess Eskom’s challenges
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says the Eskom Board will appoint a panel of experts to do an assessment of all the power supply...
Communities, mining corporations and corruption in South Africa
During the apartheid era in South Africa, the mining industry operated without restraint and had undue influence over government decision-making. This created an environment...
Government to engage Sibanye on possible job cuts
The Department of Mineral Resources will engage Sibanye-Stillwater on its announcement of possible retrenchments at two of its gold operations.
“The department will engage with...
