Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered the 2025 National Budget Speech on Wednesday (12 March). The budget addressed ...

Quick question, dear reader: who, praytell, is the Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities ...

Discover how South African experts are reacting to the 2025 Budget Speech, highlighting concerns over VAT increases, youth ...

Minister Siviwe Gwarube has announced that over 93% of pit toilets in South African public schools have been eradicated, marking a significant milestone in the SAFE initiative aimed at providing safe ...

The Education Portfolio Committee has welcomed the budget allocated for the Education Sector. Minister of Finance, Enoch ...

Budget Speech 2025 sees VAT increase announced . Godongwana has announced that VAT, currently at 15%, will increase by half a percentage point in 2025/26 and another half a percen ...

The postponement of the tabling of the Budget three weeks ago was a regrettable, but perhaps an understandable feature of multiparty governance.   The delay has stimulated an unprecedented level of ...

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has announced a R284.7 billion allocation for social grants, leading to a bigger increase ...

The United States of America remains a strategic and historic partner to our country. South Africa maintains its active engagement with the United States through political, diplomatic, and economic ...

South Africa should only have four ministers, with more deputy ministers and particularly more director-generals who are the heads of various government departments below them. This is feedback from ...

South African International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor suggested in a speech last week that South ...

Prof Daniel D. Bradlow is Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria.