Wilhelm Van Zyl - Uncertainty hurts
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan's budget speech will make a positive difference to the lives of millions. But the lack of progress on crucial policy issues is creating uncertainty in the economy and could lower the country's growth trajectory.
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Phillip Matlakala - Fostering a culture
More debate is required to ensure that levels of saving improve in SA. The debate needs to consider this complex challenge and all its workings holistically, including the impact of legislation, incentives, financial literacy and poverty
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John Melville - Shy on retirement
Government's immediate priorities, rightfully so, are to create jobs through the expanded public works programmes and bold new initiatives such as the proposed subsidy to companies in the private sector that employ young school-leavers
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Romeo Makhubela - Spell out, then act
With government finances under pressure, many will be disappointed by the lack of detail on how it plans to work more efficiently and expedite service delivery
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Nkosinathi Chonco - After the circus
When SA won the bid to host the 2010 Fifa World Cup, the news was met with ecstasy by a continent that had been sold the idea as a social and economic magic bullet. That was a lifetime ago, in 2004
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Blum Khan - No place to skimp
Every country in the world has been affected in some way by the current global financial crisis and SA has been no exception. This 2010/2011 national budget bears the hallmarks of global hard times. Revenues have been affected and we face a fiscal
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