Hirsch: Nene shielded SA from ‘junk’. Treasury reputation tarnished.
Alan Hirsch voices his concerns around new Finance Minister David van Rooyen and says his appointment is a ‘very serious situation’.
Alan Hirsch voices his concerns around new Finance Minister David van Rooyen and says his appointment is a ‘very serious situation’.
South Africa’s rand was being tipped by some strategists as one of 2016’s likely currency winners as recently as Wednesday. They didn’t see Jacob Zuma coming.
Jacob Zuma’s firing of respected Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene sends a clear message to members of Zuma’s political party, his fellow citizens and the world in general.
Read the full Mini Budget speech, given by finance minister Nhlanhla Nene
Two weeks before Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene publishes revised growth forecasts, the IMF cut its estimate for 2015 to 1.4 percent from 2 percent.
Addressing journalists at the SABC’s offices in Johannesburg on Wednesday, Hlaudi Motsoeneng said it was not a sin for a black man to earn a decent salary.
Plans to build new nuclear plants are encountering mounting opposition from within the government and ruling party over the project’s affordability.
DA shadow minister of finance David Maynier wants to know why Treasury has been shut out of the nuclear build plans
The National Treasury is investigating the origins of a document that purports to be an intelligence report on how top Treasury officials were apartheid agents.
Allan Greenblo was my boss at Finance Week in the early 1980s and wrote extensively then about attempts to introduce compulsory preservation of pensions. Those were heady times. Labour was starting to flex new muscles legalised through the laws enacted following the Wiehahn Commission, and it was before the UDF’s internal activism hit top gear. … Read more