Careless utterances and thumb-suck estimates of 19 000 teacher retrenchments in KwaZulu-Natal alone clearly indicate that the ...

A political analyst says government will not be able to function properly if Parliament does not pass the budget.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says the DA never provided alternatives to the VAT hike. He defended the increase in ...

SASSA Old Age grants in April 2025 have finally been confirmed by the agency. Better still, increases are higher than ...

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South African consumers brace for a significant impact at the checkout as Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's 2025 Budget ...

A Treasury Budget that is divorced from reality is a futile exercise. It’s a wish list, not an executable plan. Unfortunately, the ties between the national Budget and reality have over time become ...

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana faces scrutiny over the postponed Budget Speech and proposed VAT hike, as political ...

Life is a game of pragmatic trade-offs; it was thus a realistic compromise by the Minister of Finance and his budget team to agree to raise the VAT by only 0. 5% in the financial year 2025/26 and by ...

With limited options available, the government has placed reliance on increased VAT to raise additional revenue.

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The party announced on Friday that it’s planning a nationwide protest to demonstrate against government’s 0.5% VAT hike.