Budget 2025 😭

[WATCH] The South African Revenue Service has exceeded the National Treasury's tax revenue expectations. SARS Commissioner Edward Kieswetter announced that as of midnight on March 31, 2025, SARS had collected net revenue of R1.855 trillion.

Katlego is a Grade 10 learner from Ga-Mashashane in Limpopo. She has been an activist with Equal Education since she was in Grade 8 and elected to EE’s National Council in 2022. She presented in Parliament today to highlight issues in her school in GaMashashane. I’m proud!

How VAT will impact households is widely documented. Now let’s talk about how VAT also impacts government spending/budgets. 🫠

We cannot even blink

The WHCH has delivered.

Budget 3.0. What a time to be alive 🫠

Your money buys less tea than it used to. Catch up on the latest #CPI figures here: statssa.gov.za/?p=18364 #StatsSA #ZAinflation

Oh you gem! Let me reread you. “Austerity-driven recessions amplify the political costs of economic downturns considerably by increasing distrust in the political environment.”

The tyranny of the top-5 journals in economics: "Pursuit of top-5 publications has become the obsession of the next generation of economists... Reliance on the T5 to screen talent incentivizes careerism over creativity... incentivizes professional incest and clientele effects"

I honestly think humans were meant to also hibernate in winter.

White House agrees to exempt PEPFAR from foreign aid cuts thehill.com/homenews/senat…

These stats have me crashing out 🤯. Gauteng has 15.9 million people by the way.

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No administration should lead us to give up on the state and its’ fundamental responsibilities.

The original version of our national anthem

“…that’s why I’m saying these people, don’t worry about these ones, they march everyday…everyday I’ve got a budget, because they have no work to do” 🫠🫠🫠