Tag: Budget Speech

First, the department bailed Warrenton Super Chicken out of debt. This year, the department appointed a specialist to help the business turn a profit. Northern Cape agri MEC Mase Manopole ...

Although the agri department's budget has declined in real terms, it presents an opportunity to spend it more efficiently, says one of SA's top agri organisations. "Biosecurity is a prime ...

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has received mostly praise from the farming sector for his first budget speech since being appointed. He seemed level-headed and on the money for turning his ...

The agriculture sector has given Enoch Godongwana a thumbs up after he vowed to accelerate infrastructure investment in his budget speech. However, it seems that the wine industry’s pleas to ...

KwaZulu-Natal's department of agriculture and rural development has heeded the cries of farmers to prioritise livestock programmes as well as secondary commodities in the new financial year. Tabling her third ...

Nearly a week after the implementation of a massive petrol and diesel price hike, agriculturists from many different industries are concerned that it may be the straw that breaks the ...

Mzansi’s financial year is off to a rocky start with an expected inflation hike. While the inflation outlook remains at 3.5%, FNB-Agribusiness says things could most likely change.   The 2020 ...

The Land Bank is getting a R3 billion equity investment from government to recapitalise it. This makes it the only state-owned enterprise getting an in-year spending adjustment from treasury as ...

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's maiden budget speech have left South Africans with mixed feelings, and it seems economists are no exception. Economists that Food For Mzansi spoke to are generally ...

In his maiden budget speech, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni called on South Africans to plant anew to, amongst others, achieve accelerated economic growth, increased tax collection and reconfigured state-owned enterprises. ...