Skip to main content
Search SAnews

South Africa

Spending cuts hits transport, housing hardest

514

Cost pressures on government coffers has seen housing and transport expenditure become the biggest casualties in budget cuts, as the State shifts allocations to new and urgent priorities.

Sin Taxes increase

1724

Smokers and drinkers will from Wednesday have to dig deeper into their pockets for cigarettes and alcohol.

Turning point: reforms to deal with wastage

481

Tabling a very difficult budget, accompanied by a revenue shortfall amid low growth, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said government needed to implement reforms and clean house to set the country on a path of recovery.

Government sets aside R16.4bn for SAA

574

Government has set aside R16.4 billion to repay guaranteed debt for the struggling airline SAA, the National Treasury said on Wednesday.

SABC to get R1.1bn cash tranche in March

761

The public broadcaster, the SABC, is expected to get the remaining R1.1 billion of its R3.2 billion bailout by the end of next month, the National Treasury said on Wednesday.

Government to take up equity in SEZs

695

The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) is planning to take up equity in the country’s Special Economic Zones (SEZs), says Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Fikile Majola.

Budget 2020: Mboweni's tough juggling act

438

A raft of tax increases and curtailing the public sector wage bill are just some of the interventions anticipated to be announced by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni when he delivers the 2020 Budget.

R60bn allocated for Gauteng infrastructure

632

The Gauteng Provincial Government will in the next five years spend R60 billion on building and maintaining infrastructure, which will contribute to the creation of an additional 100 000 jobs, and facilitate the development of 50 black industrialists.