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#Budget2025: How the 2025 budget will impact consumers

#Budget2025: How the 2025 budget will impact consumersThabani Ndwandwe

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#Budget2025: Sin taxes adjusted above the expected inflation rate

#Budget2025: Sin taxes adjusted above the expected inflation rate

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At the start of February, The Up&Up Group appointed Deborah Whitlock (right) to the position of marketing director and Sharleen James (left) as the MD of Razor PR (Image by Bizcommunity, Lesley Svenson)

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Liezel Jonkheid is director and founder of the Consumer Psychology Lab. Source: Supplied.

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Source: Reuters. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures as he delivers his 2025 State of the Nation Address in Cape Town, South Africa, 6 February, 2025.

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South Africa to incentivise local EV production

Source: Supplied. Standard Bank’s Executive Head: Middle Market, Motlatsi Mkalala.

VAT hike: Struggling South Africans brace for greater financial strain

Source: Reuters. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa answers lawmakers' questions at the parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, 11 March, 2025.

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Former Prasa acting CEO Mthuthuzeli Swartz (right) exits the Gqeberha Regional Court with his advocate, Mzwamadoda Mnyani. Photo: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

Former Prasa acting CEO pleads not guilty to stealing railway line

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Source: Reuters. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures as he delivers his 2025 State of the Nation Address in Cape Town, South Africa, 6 February, 2025.

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Source: Supplied. Standard Bank’s Executive Head: Middle Market, Motlatsi Mkalala.

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Source: Reuters. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa answers lawmakers' questions at the parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, 11 March, 2025.

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