News Source: I Africa
| 27 days ago
Several former senior Land Bank executives are under investigation after the misappropriation of millions of rand was revealed. Gordhan announced on Tuesday the bank would receive an additional R1-billion as soon as a turnaround strategy was...
News Source: News 24
| 28 days ago
We are not going to go in the direction of some countries... taking, if you like, control of the situation. What we are going to do is to work with the Reserve Bank and make sure we grow our reserves." he said, adding the government did not have a...
News Source: I Africa
| 28 days ago
Warrants of arrest have been issued for Reese and Tannenbaum, accused of being the mastermind of a R12.5-billion Ponzi scheme fraud, said Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations spokesperson Musa Zondi. Their names would be circulated to police...
News Source: Financial Times
| 28 days ago
Unveiling his first mid-term budget statement, Pravin Gordhan told South Africa’s parliament that the government planned to raise R640bn ($83bn, €56bn, £51bn) in debt over the next four years. “Higher borrowing is the right thing to do, in...
News Source: News 24
| 28 days ago
It could almost have been Trevor Manuel speaking," said Philip Dexter, the spokesperson of the Congress of the People (Cope), after listening to new Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan deliver his first major financial policy statement in the National...
News Source: News 24
| 28 days ago
Management of the South African fiscus may be subject to economics rather than politics as stated earlier on Tuesday by Pravin Gordhan, but the finance minister also gave a nod to the left claiming the country had to rethink its economic model.