South Africa’s public debt has tripled since the global financial crisis and is not expected to stabilize over the medium term under staff’s baseline. Cross-country evidence suggests that fiscal rules ...

South Africa's Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana delivered the 2025 National Budget for financial year 2025-26 (FY25-26, 1 ...

Ratings agency Moody's expects South Africa's coalition government to reach a compromise that allows the country's deadlocked budget to pass with its focus on fiscal consolidation intact.

Each bill must be passed before moving to the next stage. According to parliament, lawmakers have until April 3, which is 16 ...

South Africa’s finance minister denied that he ignored advice from the National Treasury not to raise value-added tax by two percentage points, the move that led to last month’s budget being ...

The Treasury has insisted that this is not to be a major event, as Reeves has committed to only holding one major fiscal event - the Autumn Budget - a year. With little fiscal headroom, however, ...

JOHANNESBURG: Fitch ratings agency said on Friday that it thought South Africa’s government would struggle to stabilise debt as projected in this week’s revised budget. “South Africa’s ...

Although 74% of South Africa’s HIV response is funded domestically, some services depend on U.S. government funding, which makes up around 17% of the nation’s AIDS response budget. Despite ...

South Africa has entered uncharted waters following deep divisions in the coalition government over the national budget that has finally been tabled after a month-long delay. This is the view of ...