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The market is taking heart Treasury won't be borrowing more, while higher fuel levies and more money for Sars will help plug the VAT…
Mindless employment equity on Meth
The employment and labour minister should be applying her mind to the more pressing issue: unemployment.…
Why South Africa needs to go Irish
‘Money’ author David McWilliams isn’t writing South Africa off yet – but it needs to shake off its emerging-market curse and kickstarts its factories…
Godongwana’s third act: Another box office flop?
Budget 3.0 lands without the VAT hike. But with weak growth, rising costs and party tension, it’s another instalment in search of a new…
South Africa’s jobless, growthless trap
South Africa’s jobless growth trap persists, with unemployment at 32.9%. The deeper causes are structural, stubborn and politically inconvenient…
The JSE’s listings crisis demands some honest introspection
The slow-motion collapse of our public equity market lies with the very industry meant to steward the nation’s savings…
Debt crisis: South Africa’s not there yet, but …
Scrapping the VAT hike isn’t going to push South Africa into a debt crisis. But without real growth and spending cuts, we’re drifting closer…
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As Trump focuses his attention on slapping tariffs on imported goods, rivals eye the US’s powerful services sector for retaliation…
Why ‘America First’ economics won’t fly
Despite last week’s pause, White House advisers are apparently still full steam ahead on Trump’s tariff plan. Sanity, it seems, will not prevail…
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