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ONKGOPOTSE JJ TABANE | It can’t be business as usual — time for new fiscal management ideas
Size of cabinet, number of provinces and ever-increasing salaries in civil services are some of the burden we could do without
27 March 2025 - 04:30
The ANC’s insistence on increasing VAT while refusing to revise income tax brackets is a major political blunder that makes the party appear tone-deaf. Even if there are valid reasons for boosting revenue collection, the ANC has other levers of power it could use to avoid burdening the poor...
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