2012 Budget

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Mail & Guardian

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Finance minister Pravin Gordhan faces a stern test when he delivers his 2012 budget. The Mail & Guardian team takes us through the speech as it happens.

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2 Responses to 2012 Budget

  1. Mogaputsi says:
    February 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    This is a convinsing budget speech but I am still strongly agains the tollgate issue whcih were erected around Gauteng, they are costly to road users. Our government do’nt get tired of taxing the citizens, basically is because the funds get lost before our eyes as they become greedy and engage in fraudulent activities.
    there is again less said of the working class, particularly the povernment employees who are forever engaging the government in increment which took time to respond to the plight of the working class, who mostly don’t qualafy for RDP houses and also does not qualify buy bond houses, basically the politicians are only looking at themselves on some number of issues.
    the infrastructure development issue is quiet convinsing and desirerable to a whole lot of unemployed majority and the investors alike for that i will say biggup

  2. Alison Goldberg says:
    February 23, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    I thought Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget speech was very good.

    There are two areas of concern to me, however.

    The first is in his reference to corruption. He advises government officials not to accept bribes. For balance, and for the sake of truth, he should have advised them also not to solicit bribes.

    The emphasis on empowering blacks, should be extended to empowering all South Africans of whatever colour. The ANC does itself and South Africans a perpetual disservice by alienating all those who are not black and who are struggling equally.

    An apology would be gracious. A review of BEE to transform into into a colour-blind effort, would bring about the kind of response he called for from the private sector. The word inclusivity was used a number of times. Let’s see it in practice.