Linda Ensor
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Patel outlines energy plans
Minister says trade, industry & competition department must retool and shift staff and resources to deal with energy supply crisis → Read More
Home affairs commits to reducing permits backlog
It takes eight months to process a permanent residence permit application because it has to go through six processes → Read More
Debt owed to municipalities continues to climb
Municipalities were owed R305.8bn at end-December, a 17% increase over the amount a year earlier → Read More
Municipal revenue at risk if solar tax incentive takes off
Parliament warned incentive for households could strip municipalities of most of their paying customers → Read More
Accounting officers clean up their act over personal liability, MPs told
The enhanced powers of the auditor-general’s office ultimately makes them personally liable for irregular losses, says Tsakani Maluleke → Read More
Government proposes exemption of energy supply collaboration from Competition Act
Proposed regulations are contained in the Government Gazette and are open for public comment until March 28 → Read More
State can’t drop Covid grant without a back-up, says Godongwana
But the 2023/24 budget makes no provision for the extension of the grant beyond March next year → Read More
PetroSA doubles revenue on diesel sales
Chair Nkululeko Poya tells MPs that efforts to diversify revenue have yielded results → Read More
Treasury targets value for money as critical to budget process
Allocating more money to departments that cannot spend it is pointless, says office head Edgar Sishi → Read More
Core services shrinkage in budget will harm the poor, MPs told
Civil society organisations criticise what they say is an austerity budget → Read More
Treasury and Reserve Bank growth forecasts differ over impact of power cuts
Finance minister says Reserve Bank's projection of 0.3% GDP growth for 2023 is based on worse assumptions than Treasury’s 0.9% forecast → Read More
ANC ministers live in luxury as country goes under
Ministers and deputies live like ‘rock stars’ despite collapsing SA, says DA → Read More
Two years in the making, parliament passes electoral reform bill
Much unhappiness lingers over the legislation to allow independent candidates in national and provincial elections → Read More
Treasury does not support state monopoly in energy sector, says David Masondo
Deputy minister says the energy sector needs to be liberalised but that does not mean privatisation → Read More
Treasury does not support state monopoly in energy sector — David Masondo
Deputy minister says the energy sector needs to be liberalised but that does not mean privatisation → Read More
Treasury takes the wheel at Eskom
Package depends on privatising generation and investing in transmission → Read More
Provinces and local government get more to alleviate financial pressure
Cost pressure has escalated in health, education and basic services → Read More
Provinces and local government get more to alleviate financial pressure
Cost pressure has escalated in health, education and basic services → Read More
Public sector to invest R903bn in infrastructure over the next three years
Money will be used to expand power generation capacity, upgrade and expand the transport network, and improve sanitation and water services, Budget Review states → Read More
Tax relief to support clean energy transition
Personal income tax brackets have been adjusted to take account of inflation → Read More