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No More Headroom: 2025 Budget Speech is Bad News for Taxpayers
12th March 2025 The unexpected postponement of the annual Budget Speech last month sent shockwaves through South Africa, unsettling market sentiment. Now, the... →
2025 Budget 2.0: The VAT increase is dead, long live the VAT increase
12th March 2025 The shocks, surprises and shortfalls in the initial Budget that never saw the light of day on 19 February, made way for a reworked National Budget... →
Lower VAT hikes in delayed Budget not enough to secure full GNU backing 
By: Terence Creamer 12th March 2025 Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana tabled his delayed Budget on Wednesday that included lower, yet still controversial, increases to the value-added... →
Personal to Powerful: Holding the line for gender justice in the face of growing anti-rights movements
12th March 2025 Thirty years on from the commitments enshrined in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) this briefing reveals a picture of broken... →
Can African philanthropy fill in for American aid cuts?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 12th March 2025 Africa must look within to improve resource allocation and promote social impact investments that go beyond just boosting profits. On the day he... →
Government and revenue: VAT delayed the budget, but an increase is still likely
12th March 2025 The 2025 Budget will be historic not for one but two significant reasons. The first is the Government of National Unity (GNU) embodying democracy... →
Civil society asks Ramaphosa to ‘censure’ Godongwana
By: Creamer Media Reporter 11th March 2025 Ten civil society organisations, and counting, are urging President Cyril Ramaphosa to censure Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana following comments... →
Kenya HIV patients live in fear as US aid freeze strands drugs in warehouse
By: Reuters 11th March 2025 The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of antiretrovirals to... →
