Mboweni rises to the challenge


POSTED ON: February 26, 2020 IN by Admin

Tito Mboweni has faced up to the challenges and delivered a tough budget that will rescue the state from financial disaster – if it can be implemented.

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The toughest budget since democracy


POSTED ON: February 25, 2020 IN , by Admin

South Africa’s national finances are in a perilous state and the finance minister will have the difficult task of setting out how they will be managed.

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THE BUDGET: “SUBSTANCE OVER BLUSTER”


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Much is riding in the 2020 Budget speech because a slide into full junk status by Moody’s is a very clear and present danger.

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Bold leadership is required to end SA’s jobs crisis


POSTED ON: February 20, 2020 IN by Admin

The dual catastrophes of South Africa’s unemployment and economic growth situations can only be met by leadership with a will to make the right but perhaps politically less palatable choices.

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Urgent implementation required on positive Sona messages


POSTED ON: February 19, 2020 IN , , , by Admin

President Cyril Ramaphosa gave a positive SONA 2020 with some real plans to deal with our economic problems. The challenge is implementation.

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Cyril Ramaphosa’s Sona is the most significant speech since 1994


POSTED ON: February 11, 2020 IN , , by Admin

It is up to President Cyril Ramaphosa to reinvigorate and inspire confidence in South Africans from all walks of life in his SONA.

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Cosatu’s debt bailout proposal for Eskom amounts to nothing more than a free lunch


POSTED ON: February 10, 2020 IN , by Admin

SA can’t use public pensions as a convenient piggy bank to bail out our indebted SOEs and avoid fundamental reforms.

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The argument against appointing a ‘land tsar’


POSTED ON: February 6, 2020 IN by Admin

Placing land reform in the hands of a government official – a ‘land tsar’ – will only add another layer of policy uncertainty to South Africa’s economic story.

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