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Flash Briefing: Budget speech, R182bn windfall brings hope; Dlodlo, Cele play July riots blame game; “commerce-pleasant” Jhb

  • Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana offered the 2022 budget speech on the present time. BizNews founder Alec Hogg, who attended the pre-Budget lockup presser, talked about that Godongwana did ​​his simplest to instil hope on the common sense that without hope there might perhaps perhaps simply moreover be no self assurance. In uplifting info, SA’s total tax income exceeded the February 2021 Budget Speech estimate by R182bn at R1.55trn. Improved income is primarily ensuing from improved commodity costs, with corporate tax receipts from mining corporations accounting for most of the lengthen. The economic system is moreover expected to attain pre-pandemic ranges of GDP this year. Hogg reported that the rebuilding of SARS is evidenced in the recruitment of an further 490 workers and the investment of R430m in modernising its ICT infrastructure. 
  • Worn dispute security minister Ayanda Dlodlo has washed her hands of the responsibility for the intelligence screw ups during the July 2021 riots that disturbed the nation. Testifying ahead of the SA Human Rights Commission this week, Dlodlo talked about she became once not responsible for assorted departments’ screw ups to carry intelligence experiences to the ministers or officers responsible. She moreover talked about that she did not beget the authority to ‘declassify’ info. Dlodlo and police minister Bheki Cele were implicated in the screw ups that enabled rioters and looters to rampage thru KwaZulu Natal and parts of Gauteng. To this point, no officers beget taken possession of these screw ups nor been held responsible.
  • The City of Joburg has given property house owners over R2.2bn in rebates over the final monetary year. The city says that the rebates strive to supply commerce and property house owners relief during an honest economic length. The City of Joburg wired that this kinds piece of its plans to create Johannesburg a “commerce-pleasant city”. The announcement of the rebates comes per week after town terminated companies and products to properties that were in arrears, as much as the worth of R38bn in unpaid charges, taxes and levies.

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