CARTOON: Mboweni’s budget burden

Tito Mboweni has a difficult task in next week’s budget, writes Delia Ndlovu, with the economy so weak and the ever-present Eskom issue

State capture commission to hear evidence on the Eskom looting, writes Natasha Marrian

The Treasury has to tackle an electricity crisis on top of high unemployment and a global downturn, writes Sunita Menon

Econometrix chief economist Azar Jammine talks to Business Day TV about next week’s budget speech

As we lurch from one crisis to the next, the question has to be asked: why does it take our government so long?

The government could raise taxes to claw back fiscal stability, but this would be self-defeating and punishing, writes Ann Bernstein