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Former Sars commissioner Oupa Magashula. File Photo

Former Sars commissioner Oupa Magashula dies after long illness

Magashula resigned in 2013 after an investigative report found that he had acted improperly during a recruitment process

Data governance provides evidence-based decision-making that improves the quality of service delivery

Without an effective data governance strategy, decisions are nothing but guesses

Data governance provides evidence-based decision-making that improves the quality of service delivery

The decision to form a unity government has been broadly welcomed by economists.

SA’s economic policymakers need a better compass

Policymakers at home and abroad failed to see the 2008 crisis as an opportunity to break from the past and imagine the world anew

The South African Reserve Bank is likely to hold interest rates unchanged

Reserve Bank left toothless amid Eskom-induced stagflation

The recent rand crash has led some to believe another 50 basis point rise is on the horizon, despite a view that further hiking will do little to tame inflation

What goes up must come down: Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell leaves a news conference in Washington. The Fed’s hiking cycle contributed to the sudden collapse of tech
lender Silicon Valley Bank recently. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP

Banking shock exposes cheap cash addiction

The turmoil, which some say was inevitable given aggressive hiking cycles, exposes the dependency of advanced economies on cheap credit

The MTBPS stresses that there are already 18.3 million citizens who receive one or another form of welfare grant. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Social welfare: Investment not debt, taxation and consumption

A rebuttal to Colin Coleman’s remarks at the National Investment Dialogue suggests South Africa certainly has a debt problem

Floraes Mallewagen

Tulip mania: The classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong

The Bitcoin crash was dubbed a "tulip mania 2.0" but there is one problem with the story of the Dutch financial craze — much of the story is untrue

Clampdown on tax avoidance

By closing the tax gap, South Africa can reap billions of rands to benefit the economy.