Not all SASSA Childcare Grants in April 2025 will increase at the same rate, but it’s encouraging news nonetheless for needy ...

A political analyst says government will not be able to function properly if Parliament does not pass the budget.

One municipality regularly exceeds its water allocation limit yet it received top marks for water management from the water ...

Discover the challenges faced by South Africa’s Land Rights Management Unit as it struggles to deliver justice to the country’s most vulnerable communities ...

Senators announced plans to vote on a separate bill that would allow Washington, D.C., to maintain its 2025 budget instead of ...

A Treasury Budget that is divorced from reality is a futile exercise. It’s a wish list, not an executable plan. Unfortunately, the ties between the national Budget and reality have over time become ...

The Senate is finding itself in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare ...

The Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana, has been briefing the standing committee on appropriations on the budget.

Life is a game of pragmatic trade-offs; it was thus a realistic compromise by the Minister of Finance and his budget team to agree to raise the VAT by only 0. 5% in the financial year 2025/26 and by ...

With limited options available, the government has placed reliance on increased VAT to raise additional revenue.

The VAT hike wasn’t the only controversial tax proposal in the 2025 Budget 2.0. The National Treasury has announced its ...