CEBELIHLE BHENGU Finance minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday vouched for Jacob Zuma, saying that given the former president’s struggle credentials, he doesn’t believe he wants to “undermine our hard-fought freedoms”. “Whatever his…
UNATHI NKANJENI A Twitter spat between finance minister Tito Mboweni and the DA shadow minister of finance, Geordin Hill-Lewis, has escalated after the opposition party’s urgent application to stop Mboweni from bailing out SA Airways…
LINDA ENSOR A group of nearly 100 economists, economic analysts and professionals have called on parliament to reject finance minister Tito Mboweni’s supplementary budget on the grounds that it fails to address the magnitude of the crisis…
ANTONY SGUAZZIN and PRINESHA NAIDOO Finance minister Tito Mboweni told selected clients of two of the country’s biggest banks that the National Treasury had no plans to boost income, corporate or value added taxes (VAT) even as the…
The government will not agree to any conditions compromising the national sovereignty of the country in its loans discussion of lending institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank and the African Development Bank. That’s the assertion…
Finance minister Tito Mboweni has revealed that government intends to borrow US$7bn (R118bn) from international finance institutions, warning strongly that it is money which must be paid back. “Government intends to borrow US$7bn from…
By LINDA ENSOR Finance minister Tito Mboweni will make an announcement on Friday on the Covid-19 relief financing, as well as any possible approach for funding from international finance institutions. Many questions have been raised about…
‘It’s a beautiful and wonderful fish’ Finance minister Tito Mboweni says the recall of tinned pilchards isn’t going to stop him cooking and eating his favourite dish. This after the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS)…
By BEKEZELA PHAKATHI Finance minister Tito Mboweni has been urged to ditch the controversial sugar tax which was introduced in 2018 amid concerns that it will wipe out SA’s sugar industry. The industry is reeling from the effects of the…
Just where will the finance minister find the extra money SA so badly needs? We know you need the money, the Automobile Association said to finance minister Tito Mboweni this week, but don’t grab it from fuel taxes. This was among the…
Eskom’s senior managers – who earn R1.5m to R3m a year – are taking the power utility to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) because they have not been given a salary increase in the past year. Rapport…
As the controversy over the e-tolls in Gauteng rages, transport minister Fikile Mbalula has told MPs that national roads agency Sanral is due to spend R25bn this year to expand the national roads network. Mbalula made the announcement in…
Finance minister Tito Mboweni declined to give the cash-strapped SABC a much-needed government guarantee in order for the public broadcaster to stay on air. This was relayed to communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams in a two-page…
South Africans are set to cough up even more for tobacco and alcohol, following yet another increase on sin taxes announced by finance minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday. If you’re feeling the pinch, one option to save money would be to…
