The State of the Nation Address (SONA) this last week focussed heavily on economic recovery. President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged a new social compact within 100 days, “working together to revitalise the economy”. Additionally, there was a focus on regulatory reform to...
South African Government plans to roll out the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan. President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his State of the Nation Address in February, stated that the plan focusses on infrastructure, industrialisation and local production, employment...
In general, although the restrictions around Covid-19 resulted in an initial decrease in production, the easing of lockdown rules and the concomitant reopening of mines, resulted in mining production in South African increasing by 21.3 per cent year-on-year in May...
There is wide-spread agreement regarding the fact that South Africa desperately needs legislation to ensure public and private sector procurement compliance. Recently, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) reported that between April 2020 and June 2021, government...
In his Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana emphasised that the mounting debt-service costs are a clear signal that the country must stabilise its public finance to redirect spending in favour of economic development. As such, there was...
Several important developments in the Energy sector this past year will set the scene for 2022. In October 2021, Eskom initiated proceedings in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg to review the decision by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA)...
