In this instalment of The Fiscal Cliff – a Mail & Guardian series on how South Africa’s budget has been shaped – Sarah Smit considers the intimate link between the country’s…

A liquidated company is fighting to get home affairs to pay the years old debt owed to them

The new director general played a key role in developing the Eskom Debt Relief Bill

The treasury has found a new way to throw its weight around. Who will it crush first?

But the department’s already reduced ranks may make it difficult to find someone with the technical know-how and clout to replace Dondo Mogajane

When Dondo Mogajane became director general of the national treasury, question marks were raised about his ability to defend the institution. Five years later, it was a war well…

Dondo Mogajane is set to pursue new opportunities outside the public sector after his contract as treasury director general expires

Migrant workers are seen as contributing to South Africa’s unemployment crisis. But cutting them off threatens to throw the regional economy off kilter

Last month’s budget was positive about the trajectory of the economy but near-term growth projection are only slightly higher than during South Africa’s darkest years

The treasury is meeting rating agencies that identified the public service compensation as a threat to South Africa’s credit outlook

Treasury officials will model the effect of the grant on the fiscus if the need arises

DA leader John Steenhuisen has called for Ramaphosa to throw out what he termed an ‘outdated 20th century ideology of state control’

Busisiwe Mkhwebane ‘allowed her important office to be used to try and resuscitate a long-dead fake news propaganda fiction’, the court ruled

Public sector unions have cried foul over the government’s plan to freeze wages for three years and have vowed to fight back.

Treasury, the department of public works’ Infrastructure in South Africa, and the DBSA have signed a memorandum of agreement that mandates the bank to establish and manage the fund

Many government officials have been talking tough about dealing with rampant corruption in PPE procurement but the majority won’t even release names of who has benefited from the…

Reports of corruption, over-pricing and the delivery of sub-standard PPE have become the norm over the past five months as the country grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic

The OECD predicts a 7.5% contraction in South Africa’s GDP, with an 8.2% contraction if a second wave of Covid-19 is not avoided

The economy is in a depressed state, and Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has called for cautious use of the country’s finances to avert plunging into a sovereign debt crisis

Government’s response to the coronavirus is unlikely to counteract the expected sharp decline of the country’s gross domestic product