Economy

Budget: Social grants to increase and VAT goes up

Finance minister announces above-inflation grant increases

Immigrant spaza shop owners battle to meet registration deadline

Problems with documents from Home Affairs affect shop owners’ ability to comply with President Ramaphosa’s announcement about food outlets

Union calls on government to save steelworkers’ jobs

3,500 jobs at risk in the industry as ArcelorMittal considers retrenchments

Budget postponement is a “blessing in disguise” says COSATU

Hundreds marched in Cape Town ahead of budget announcement

Fresh outcry over hotel development next to historic Bo-Kaap mosque

Developers say the “goalposts keep moving”

Quick explainer: Interest rates and how they affect you

Quick explainer: Inflation and how it affects you

Minister moves to appoint National Gambling Board members after ten years

Board positions have been vacant since 2014

Activists welcome Treasury’s proposed minimum alcohol price

National Treasury has proposed tax increases to reduce harmful drinking