The decision of National Treasury to increase VAT by 2% took many experts by surprise as this kind of increase is regarded as regressive as it would cause many other increases, such as higher ...

He's put the ball back in the court of Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi to come up with a figure, if he wants money from the fiscus.

The budget speech was postponed at the eleventh hour because the ANC’s partners in the Government of National Unity (GNU), are opposed to the proposed 2% increase in VAT, a move that would see a hike ...

Godongwana flagged plans to hike value-added tax, without saying it would raise the rate by two percentage points to 17%.

Judge Avinash Govindjee called for improved alcohol labelling to address the link between alcohol consumption and ...

When the minister of finance takes the podium to deliver his budget speech today he will be addressing a nation of desperate ...

BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa will be sworn in as a minister in Delhi alongside Rekha Gupta and others. The BJP, after a ...

US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced he will not attend and accused Pretoria of an “anti-American” agenda.

Recent media reports about the future of the National Health Insurance are contradictory and hard to make sense of. Chris Bateman chased up those in a position to know where things stand. It seems the ...

The DA has upped the ante in its demands for consultation on every point of government policy, although ANC ministers also ...

Below is the full budget speech delivered by South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana. By Minister of Finance, ...

In Africa, thousands of U.S.-funded health workers have been laid off and clinics have closed, restricting access to HIV ...