UCT’s finance lecturer Misheck Mutize and business professor Sean Gossel sat down with Sibonelo Radebe for The Conversation, to talk all things Budget…

The opposition slammed tax increases announced in Wednesday’s budget speech.

An unusually quiet day for the red berets

Where do our taxes go? Here, apparently…

Get to know the government’s latest anti-pollution measures

The 2018 Budget Speech provided the first clear look at how Government will fund Jacob Zuma’s Free Higher Education bombshell. We have the details.

A conservative, yet potentially fruitful budget

The 2018 Budget Speech had a lot of details as well as a lot of jokes. We’ve got some of the best reactions from South Africans online.

This was a live blog and updates as they happened appear in full below. 15:40 Gigaba ends his speech with thanks to Ramaphosa (and Zuma) and a bit of howling from the DA follows.  He’s had a lot of jokes for a guy who many reckon will be unemployed soon… So, to recap, things are going […]

The toughest test of Cyril Ramaphosa’s honeymoon begins on Wednesday

The National Budget speech for the 2018/19 financial year will be delivered on Wednesday, 21 February 2018. It is scheduled to begin at 14:00. Unlike the State of the Nation address, which was postponed, the budget speech is unlikely to be affected by any political wheeling and dealing that might occur before then. As things […]

It’s only newsworthy if John’s put his 10 cents in…

It gets deeper and deeper.

They say numbers speak louder than words. This is certainly true of Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s mid-term budget speech this week.

Gigaba’s Mid Term Budget Speech couldn’t avoid the elephant in the room, but neither did it do anything to clear it out the way

You don’t have to be an economist to put two and two together on this one

South Africans React: The mid-term budget speech by Malusi Gigaba has gathered quite the reaction from the public. Check this out…

Watch to stay up to date with proceedings in parliament? We’ve got you covered.

The Trade Union body have predicted it will be a ‘new bottle of the same old rancid wine’. Damn…

Malusi Gigaba will soon announce his first budget as minister of finance. The Conversation spoke to an expert to find out just how big a deal it really is.

By now everyone has had some time to digest the Budget Speech, and specifically how the R28 billion increase in the tax burden that largely falls on individuals will impact us.

While the National Assembly applauded Pravin Gordhan’s budget speech, four members chose not to stand or even clap…

These are the tax table adjustments for those of us who don’t fall in the super rich income bracket.

As usual South Africans online had the best reactions.

Here are some of the most important numbers mentioned in the budget.