The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will likely keep interest rates steady at its March 20 meeting as global trade risks ...

Fitch ratings agency said on Friday that it thought South Africa's government would struggle to stabilise debt as projected ...

South Africa's rand gained on Friday due to record high gold prices that were driven by investors seeking safe haven assets ...

South Africa’s 2025 budget is a cautious step toward fiscal stability, with debt peaking at 76.2% of GDP in 2025-26 and a ...

While Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's budget delivered on Thursday, 12 March, provides some welcome support to the mining ...

On Wednesday (12 March), the National Treasury proposed hiking value-added tax by 1 percentage point by mid-2026, increasing ...

Budget, tabled by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday, 12 March, is good news for South African taxpayers.

Ordinary South Africans are walking away from the 2025 budget bruised and bloodied. Government not only proposed an increase ...

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.

With VAT and electricity going up, South Africans will dig deep into their pockets to make end meets in the coming weeks and ...