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Budget2011
No Pain No Gain
Listening and watching the delivery and comments on the National Budget makes one think about our society. Indeed one shudders at the amounts allocated to Education, Health, the...
SECTION27 and the TAC welcome the proposed increases in health expenditure outlined in the budget tabled by Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan on 23 February 2011. In particular, we welcome the Minister’s commitment to significant...
With an increase of 29.9 percent, the police will surely be able to improve services rendered, more specifically to victims of gender-based violence and also ensure that police are trained in areas of all legislation and Acts related to sexual...
It is heartening to see a drive for job creation including incentives for young jobseekers, rural development and farmer support, and an allocation of R8.9 billion for social security benefits translating into a State pension increase of R60 per month - bringing the grant to R1 140 per month
The highlight of Pravin Gordham’s budget speech has, undoubtedly, got to be the whopping R150 billion that he set aside for job creation to benefit the youth. This coupled with the various other capital expenditure allotments should result in improvement of livelihoods in the municipalities