Tag: budget
Ramaphosa set to deliver Presidency Budget Vote
President Cyril Ramaphosa will today present the Presidency Budget Vote speech in Parliament at 2pm.
The Presidency is the nerve centre of government, overseeing...
City admits budget typo bungle
The City of Cape Town has admitted that a typing error has landed it with a major reputational headache. This followed claims of senior management...
What’s at stake in South Africa’s new finance minister’s first budget
There’s a great deal hanging on South Africa’s 2017 medium term budget policy statement. Three factors are at play: there is political turmoil around the...
Capitec: The budget bank rattling South Africa’s financial sector
A budget bank is booming in South Africa’s economic slump, challenging the decades-long dominance of the “big four” lenders and prompting a price war...
City Council’s draft budget features lowest rates and tariff increases in a decade
The Cape Chamber of Commerce has welcomed the City Council’s draft budget proposals which feature the lowest rates and tariff increases in 10 years.
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On time, on budget and on spec!
This simple phrase typifies the not so simple profession of project management, an engineering services discipline that is misunderstood by many and deliberately avoided...
Western Cape budget prioritises poor, vulnerable
The Western Cape government has prioritised the improvement of access to housing, the social net for the vulnerable and general safety.
Western Cape...
Does ‘sin tax’ have the desired impact on consumer behaviour?
Coughing Up to Cut Down?
In his recently delivered Budget Speech, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said that the anticipated 20% tax on sweetened sugar beverages...
Budget 2017: Only growth can balance the books
Lest we forget how far we’ve come
The improvement in the Main Budget primary budget balance (revenue less non-interest spending) over the past four years to an estimated -0.4% of...
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Behind every budget line, every policy, and every project there are real people, real challenges, and a shared future we are shaping. In a...