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HIGHLIGHTS: Budget speech 2018 Thapelo Lekabe and Citizen Team Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba delivering the budget speech, 21 February 2018, Cape Town.

Poverty and inequality in South Africa: Policy considerations in an emerging democracy Jean D. Triegaardt, PhD Policy Analyst ADRU. Budget Speech (2007), the Minister of Finance proposed that a basic saving and social protection system must be put in place for the needs of low-income employees.

In 2013 the 34th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) saw the banning of the first South African Film since the end of the apartheid. The banning of the film, Of Good Report (2013), aroused a new debate on censorship in South Africa. The film, about a high school teacher who preys on school girls, was alleged to contain child pornography.

Minister Gordhan had a tough message for South Africans in Wednesday's Budget Speech in the National Assembly, with the introduction of a new tax bracket for the very rich, state debt creeping up and almost all economic indicators and fiscal numbers weaker than in last year's budget.

Reasonable spending and reducing South Africa’s debt were two important prescripts underlying the National Budget Speech in February. 13 In the words of the Minister of Finance, if “we plant anew” seeds that will set us on the track to renewal, we will be able to return the “plum” times that we once enjoyed.

Budget documents will be available for purchase from 14:00 on 21 February 2018, see more info here. The complete set of Budget documents is available for download from National Treasury’s website, see Treasury Budget 2018. Medium Term Budget Policy Statement by the Minister of Finance - October 2017. Budget Speech by the Minister of Finance.

A 2019 survey by Global Corruption Barometer Africa suggested that the South African Police Service is seen as the most corrupt institution in the country. South Africa's Criminal Justice Budget was subject to plunder by corrupt police officials at least during the period from 1997 to 2017.

South Africa Economic Outlook Macroeconomic performance and outlook Real GDP grew at an estimated 0.7% in 2019, down from 0.8% in 2018, and is projected to rise to 1.1% in 2020 and 1.8% in 2021 amid domestic and global downside risks.

South African Education Systems South Africa is a multi-cultural diverse country; this is in spite of the many disputes within our historically rich nation. Our history as a nation has for many years defined us, and categorized people into derogatory groups, not individually but collectively, where gender and race have been paving the forefront of many of our nation's downfalls.

A very conservative budget was read by the South African Minister of Finance today, 20 February 2019. There are no notable increases in any of the direct or indirect taxes. The major increase in revenue is to be achieved by allowing bracket creep ie, to allow inflation to naturally increase the tax take.

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivered the 2019 budget speech in Parliament on Wednesday, as power utility Eskom struggles to keep the lights on. Here are five important quotes from Mboweni. Eskom.