Business Day's view | President Cyril Ramaphosa, respected for his diplomacy and consensus building, has been exposed in the harshest of lights. The budget delay — a first in the country’s history — reveals a leader struggling to co-govern. #Budget2025 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d-csWphD
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Business Day is a national daily newspaper in South Africa launched in 1985.
About us
Business Day is a national daily newspaper in South Africa, published from Monday to Friday and also available as an e-edition (a digital replica of the print edition). Based in Parktown, Johannesburg, it is edited by Alexander Parker and published by Arena Holdings (formerly Tiso Blackstar Group). The newspaper, launched on May 1 1985, covers all major national and international news, with a specific focus on the South African economy and business sector, the political economy, companies and financial markets. It also contains an influential opinion section with several popular columnists, along with coverage of sport, travel, books, arts and entertainment.
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- 51-200 employees
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- Johannesburg, Gauteng
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- 1985
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Toby Shapshak
TED Global | Forbes contributor | Business Day columnist | Scrolla.Africa director | Stuff editor-in-chief
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Nick Kotch
Africa Editor at Business Day
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Taslima Viljoen
Deputy News Editor
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Michael Jackson
I connect people through content and conversation on stages around the world to their companies, communities or future business space as a conference…
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Parliament on Wednesday postponed SA’s national budget for the first time ever after a day of high drama in which GNU cabinet members pushed back against finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s plan to hike VAT to 17% from 15% to fund a big increase in spending on front-line services. #Budget2025 Read the full report ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dVqv3NHP
High drama as GNU members reject Treasury’s proposed VAT hike
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'Parliament is not longer a rubber stamp for bad policies'. Here's what South Africa's political leaders had to say about the unprecedented postponement of the budget on Wednesday. #budget2025 Read the lowdown here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d3fEKzd4
Budget postponement allows Treasury to do better, says Steenhuisen
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The National Treasury said it had sought to cushion South Africa’s poorest households from the effects of the planned VAT increase by adding new items to its basket of zero-rated foods. But in an unprecedented turn of events in democratic SA, the cabinet failed to sign off on Treasury’s proposed budget on Wednesday. #budget2025 Read the full report here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dCDqp2_x
Treasury says it aimed to cushion the poor from VAT increase
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The 2025 budget has been postponed to March 12 after a deadlock within the GNU coalition partners over VAT. #budget2025 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dybWx2fi
Treasury tweaks Eskom debt relief to reflect improvements
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The head of Ninety One, SA’s largest asset management firm, says the unprecedented postponement of the 2025 budget just minutes before it was scheduled to be tabled in parliament is not a crisis, but rather points to democracy at work. #budget2025 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dZTSf5cd
Investors say budget postponement bodes well for democracy
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Just in | The government and unions representing the country’s more than 1.3-million public servants have signed a three-year wage deal. #publicservice #wagebill Read the full ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dQ9rwxRj
BREAKING NEWS: Government signs multi-term wage deal for public servants
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Business Day's cartoon by Brandan Reynolds #Budget2025 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d5XAabCh
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Interview | Data science platform Zindi aims to fully harness AI’s potential and develop solutions specifically for South Africa. CEO Celina Lee tells Business Day investing in skills is the only way to fully harness AI’s potential and ensure SA has the capacity to develop solutions ➡️ https://lnkd.in/djS2mZAm #ai #skillsdevelopment #innovation #datascience #zindi #southafrica
Q&A: Zindi wants AI for the people
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Kumba Iron Ore CEO Mpumi Zikalala says the miner will co-fund “fixing the broken pieces” of the 860km railway line from Sishen to Saldanha, but it will also look to take advantage of the potential to concession out the line to private players. #infrastructure #publicprivatepartnerships #kumbamining #railfreight Read the lowdown here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d-Z8i3b2
Kumba and Transnet unite to ‘fix broken pieces’ of Sishen-Saldanha line
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