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The downgrade of Afreximbank is emblematic of a tough few years in Africa’s bond markets…
The trouble with Godongwana’s ‘growth’ budget
Everyone wants a ‘growth budget’. But what does that actually look like? And is Budget 3.0 the answer?…
Growing pains … but Budget 3.0 is set to pass
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…
Your currency: Building vs buying property
In this week's reader question we look at whether buying a house with a R1m bond, or building on a R300K plot is the…
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…
How to start saving on any salary
A financial planner admits he didn’t follow his own advice – until debt hit. Now he shares the lesson he really learnt: think why,…
Hot mic or not, Kieswetter was right on taxes
What the VAT standoff has done is force a reckoning over the trade-offs needed to balance South Africa’s books…
How rubber is Godongwana’s arm?
Enoch Godongwana will deliver his budget amid a flurry of demands from his own party for money at Transnet and elsewhere. How rubber will…
The déjà vu deficit: Keeping South Africa on the budget tightrope
SA’s deficit – the gap between what we spend and what we get in – is likely to be ugly when Enoch Godongwana unveils…
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