Vol 49 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s 2008 budget was a more powerful statement on Thabo Mbeki’s presidency than the President’s own speech...
Vol 49 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Trevor Manuel’s budget showed real gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5% in 2007 and forecast growth of 4% in 2008 4...
Vol 49 No 5 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
The African National Congress’s new leadership in which the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have aligned themselves behind Jacob Zuma rejects Trevor Manuel’s budget for 2008 in the expected terms...
Vol 49 No 4 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel's budget on 20 February is to make social grants available to all at the age of 60 thus bringing half a million people from mostly poor backgrounds into the net...
Vol 49 No 4 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Faced with this Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni will try to slow the economy down with higher interest rates and cuts in state spending this year...
Vol 49 No 2 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Mbeki insists he will oppose any attempt to oust any of his senior allies especially those in the economic departments notably Finance Minister Trevor Manuel Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin and Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni...
Vol 49 No 2 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
Zuma strives to calm investors but there is anxiety about possible replacements for the respected Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and the Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni whose term expires like President Thabo Mbeki's in 2009...
Two politicians – South Africa’s highly effective Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and France’s forthright Cooperation Minister Jean-Marie Bockel – are adding to the pressure on international institutions to do more to regulate financial abuses such as transfer pricing and mispricing which facilitate the illicit transfer of more than US$50 billion a year out of Africa...
Trevor Manuel told the dull-sounding Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development Forum on Tax Administration in Cape Town that it is ‘a contradiction to support development assistance yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals and others that undermine the tax base of a developing country...
The leftists want the Treasury to redistribute the budget surpluses which Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has run up in the past two financial years...
Vol 48 No 25 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Zuma's advisor Mo Shaik said that there was 'a great role' for the much admired Finance Minister Trevor Manuel if he had the flexibility to shift to a 'period of heightened implementation' of a new economic policy under Zuma...