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Professor Sakhela Buhlungu. Photo: UFH Facebook

Is state capture metamorphosing into higher education capture?

For all we know, the higher education sector might even have some senior managers who aid and abet institutional capture, just like the Madlanga Commission has outed some…

Aloof: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana criticised for trivialising grievances of the people. Photo: GCIS

An elite detached from daily struggles

When workers marched and criticised the macroeconomic direction under Minister Trevor Manuel, it was never about personalities. It was about policy. It was about defending jobs,…

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. Photo: Dwayne Senior/Getty Images

Rising debt, inefficiencies are draining South Africa’s fiscus, finance committees say

The chairs of parliament’s finance committees say the country is on a fiscal cliff and the minister has to make difficult choices in his budget this week

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Ponzi scheme: BHI Trust inquiry is shrouded in secrecy

Forensic investigator raises the alarm over the decision to hold an in-camera inquiry into the swindle in which investors lost billions and calls for the minister of finance to…

Ismail Momoniat

Ismail Momoniat appointed acting director general of the treasury

Momoniat’s temporary appointment follows the resignation of former director general Dondo Mogajane, who worked in the ministry for 23 years.

United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa. (Photo by Tebogo Letsie/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Scopa to investigate claims of mismanagement at DBSA

This decision is despite the finance minister and the bank’s chief executive dismissing the UDM leader’s allegations as unfounded