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The ANC is giving a get out of jail free card to its members implicated in graft ahead of this years elections, provided that they aid the party during its campaign. In an interview with the Mail Guardian in Durban, ANC KwaZulu-Natal pro

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has given ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula two days to provide it with the full, unredacted minutes of its national deployment committee or face contempt of court charges. The party says Mbalula unlawfull

Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has been asked to clarify the decision by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) not to recommend the suspension of the Eastern Cape judge president over sexual harassment charges and to consider its implications.

Most government tax revenue collected will be used to pay the social wage bill with additional spending allocated to boost the salaries of essential workers, including teachers, nurses, doctors and police officers, over the next three years.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has allocated R848 billion to the public health system over the medium term expenditure, including almost R1.4 billion for the National Health Insurance (NHI) grant over the next three years. The health

To encourage local electric vehicle production, the government has proposed a tax incentive that will allow manufacturers to claim 150% of qualifying investment spending. According to the budget, tabled by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwa

The government has proposed that allocations to Eskom through the debt relief programme be cut by R2 billion, citing the power utilitys failure to dispose of its finance company. The treasury outlined this proposal which forms part of it

The treasury has made provisional allocations of R35 billion in 2025/206 and R36.7 billion in 2026/27 to fund the Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant beyond March 2025. These provisional allocations laid out in the budget tabl

The South African Revenue Services (Sars) has targeted individual taxpayers to collect most of the additional R15 billion needed to balance the budget , raising personal income tax across the board without providing relief from increasing tax reb