Budget Speech

What's Trending? Finance Minister Tito Mboweni Delivers The 2021 Budget Speech.

Taxpayers will be relieved following the outlining of the 2021/22 budget speech by the Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni on Wednesday. In his speech, Mboweni said the Treasury will rollout the Covid-19 vaccination programme without relyi...

Phumzile Mavimbela·about 3 years ago

The basis Of South Africa’s Annual Budgets Needs An Overhaul; Here’s Why and How.

This week South Africa’s finance minister Tito Mboweni will deliver the country’s medium term budget review. Governments in most developing countries use medium-term expenditure frameworks as fiscal policy instruments to match the i...

Matthew Kofi Ocran·about 3 years ago

A budget of missed opportunities

The Minister of Finance's annual budget speech is yet another missed opportunity for South Africa. While he claims that bold action is necessary, the truth is that there is nothing bold about this budget. The Minister has failed to annou...

Dr Dion George MP- DA Shadow Minister of Finance·about 1 year ago

Tito Mboweni’s Fiscal Balance and the Glory South Africa Seeks

On 24 February 2021 the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni delivered his 2021/22 budget speech in Parliament. Unlike his previous speeches in the House of Assembly, Mboweni broke rank with the analogy of the Aloe vera plant as a symbol of...

Musa Mdunge·about 3 years ago

Cosatu to picket outside of National Treasury ahead of Budget Speech

Day Three of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)’s Central Executive Committee Session will see the trade Union federation, take to the streets ahead of the much anticipated Budget Speech that will be presented this after...

Tshegofatso Makola·about 1 year ago

Debt, more debt and debt relief

The Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana played the role of the “king of money”, as debt relief and bailouts were handed to taxpayers and the crisis-ridden power utility, Eskom. This is as Godongwana presented the National Budget on 22 ...

Tshegofatso Makola·about 1 year ago

Cosatu to protest in the next few weeks if wage agreements aren't reached

Day Three of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)’s Central Executive Committee Session is currently underway, with some members of the trade union federation having taken to the streets ahead of the much anticipated Budge...

Tshegofatso Makola·about 1 year ago