# Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations chairperson, Mmusi Maimane, says the country’s primary challenge is not value-added tax, but the lack of growth, which has averaged one-percent over the past decade. Finance minister Enoch Godongwana is set to deliver the budget on Wednesday after it was postponed last month due to a dispute among the […]
# Die ANC se sekretaris-generaal Fikile Mbalula sê die party ondersteun die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, ten volle terwyl hy voorberei om Woensdag die begrotingsrede te lewer. Dit is verlede maand teruggestuur vir hersiening nadat partye in die regering van nasionale eenheid ʼn voorgestelde BTW-verhoging van twee-persent verwerp het. Mbalula sê hy is optimisties […]
# Die MK-party sê hy is sterk gekant teen enige verhoging van belasting in toegevoegde waarde en die regering moet die politieke wil hê om tot voordeel van armes op te tree. Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, het verlede maand sy begrotingsrede ter elfder ure gekanselleer nadat die kabinet nie kon saamstem oor ‘n voorgestelde […]
# Law firm Webber Wentzel has been appointed to investigate the awarding of two 18-billion-rand contracts by senior officials at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa. The contracts for the installation of train signalling equipment in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Western Cape were awarded to companies that did not meet the requirements. Transport minister […]
# ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the party fully supports minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana as he prepares to deliver the budget speech on Wednesday. The budget was sent back to the drawing board last month when parties in the government of national unity rejected a proposed two-percent value-added tax increase. Mbalula says he is […]
# The MK Party says it is strongly against any value-added tax hike and that the government must exercise political will and be pro-poor. Last month, Finance minister Enoch Godongwana cancelled his budget speech at the eleventh hour after the cabinet disagreed on a proposed two percentage point increase in VAT. He is set to table […]
# AfriForum het die pasgepubliseerde konsepregulasies vir die Wet op Nasionale Gesondheidsversekering afgeskiet as onduidelik en swak geskryf. AfriForum se veldtogbestuurder, Louis Boshoff, voer aan dat die regulasies nie duidelikheid gee oor hoe die stelsel sal werk nie, en het kommer uitgespreek oor die regering se bekwaamheid om die program te bestuur. Hy sê die […]
# AfriForum has criticised the newly published draft regulations for the National Health Insurance Act, calling them unclear and poorly written. AfriForum campaign officer Louis Boshoff argues that the regulations fail to provide clarity on how the system will function, raising concerns about government’s ability to manage it. He says that the regulations are vague […]
# Die GOOD-party sê pogings om vanjaar se begroting ter tafel te lê, het in ‘n politieke klug ontaard, met die ANC en die DA wat nie armoede en ongelykheid op ‘n doeltreffende manier kan pak nie. Die party meen die ANC se strewe na maatskaplike besteding word ondermyn deur ‘n BTW-verhoging wat die armes […]
