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Mini budget: Mboweni makes it stretch

Mini budget: Mboweni makes it stretch

28 October 2020  / Larry Claasen  
Finance minister makes best of limited fiscal space.
SA to plant 5% more maize hectares in 2020/21 season

SA to plant 5% more maize hectares in 2020/21 season

28 Oct 2020 /  Tumelo Modiba, Reuters   1
Boosted by favourable weather conditions and higher prices.
SA bails out insolvent state airline with R10.5bn

SA bails out insolvent state airline with R10.5bn

28 Oct 2020 /  Paul Vecchiatto, Bloomberg   8
To implement its rescue plan, taking money from other government departments.
SA plans wage freeze to lower budget deficit

SA plans wage freeze to lower budget deficit

28 Oct 2020 /  Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo, Mfuneko Toyana, Wendell Roelf, Reuters  
As it earmarks massive expenditure cuts to reign in a soaring budget deficit.
Total makes second gas discovery off SA

Total makes second gas discovery off SA

28 Oct 2020 /  Paul Burkhardt and Dana Khraiche, Bloomberg   4
The drilling programme is a rare example of exploration in a frontier area.
SA inflation slows for second month

SA inflation slows for second month

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28 Oct 2020 /  Gemma Gatticchi, Bloomberg   3
To the bottom of the central bank’s target range.
SA stocks slip to four-week low before budget statement

SA stocks slip to four-week low before budget statement

28 Oct 2020 /  Adelaide Changole, Bloomberg   1
More than 100 of the 141 listed companies were lower in early trade.
Ramaphosa self-isolates after dinner guest gets Covid-19

Ramaphosa self-isolates after dinner guest gets Covid-19

28 Oct 2020 /  Tim Cocks, Reuters  
After dinner guest gets Covid-19.
Acsa faces major losses from Covid-19 fallout

Acsa faces major losses from Covid-19 fallout

28 Oct 2020 /  Suren Naidoo   2
But reports a profit for its financial year to the end of March 2020.
South Africa needs R178bn to help transition from coal, study says

South Africa needs R178bn to help transition from coal, study says

28 Oct 2020 /  Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg    2
The country is almost entirely dependent on coal for electricity.
Sanral says e-tolls remain in place

Sanral says e-tolls remain in place

28 Oct 2020 /  Roy Cokayne   26
Until users of Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project roads are otherwise directed.
Concerns about impact of increased taxes on declining tax morality

Concerns about impact of increased taxes on declining tax morality

28 Oct 2020 /  Amanda Visser   14
...and emigration, as Mboweni steps up to present his mini-budget today.
Rand gains on dollar weakness

Rand gains on dollar weakness

27 Oct 2020 /  Alexander Winning and Promit Mukherjee, Reuters  
In afternoon trade the rand was around 0.4% firmer at R16.15 per dollar.
ACSA aims to raise $433m by selling stakes, leases

ACSA aims to raise $433m by selling stakes, leases

27 Oct 2020 /  Promit Mukherjee, Reuters   1
To help it weather a slump in passenger volumes caused by the pandemic, its chief executive said.
Wary SA stock investors look to budget for action

Wary SA stock investors look to budget for action

27 Oct 2020 /  Adelaide Changole   1
Mboweni’s budget is expected to support the objectives Ramaphosa outlined in his October 15 address to lawmakers.

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