BN Briefing: Deep dive with Dawie Roodt, Treasury overspending ahead of medium-term budget

Loading player...
In today's BizNews Briefing: Ahead of next week’s medium-term budget, economist Dawie Roodt joins Alec Hogg to unpack South Africa’s fiscal tightrope - from government overspending and tax fatigue to the limits of squeezing more revenue out of a struggling economy. A reflection on why bread-and-butter issues are finally starting to outweigh political loyalties for voters.
3 Nov 2025 10AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

Ryan Passmore - The "Missing Middle"

In this interview with BizNews, Ryan Passmore – Durban-based fintech founder of ZenFund Connect – unpacks why he believes South Africa's student funding system is broken, and how he proposes to fix it. Passmore points to the "missing middle": households earning between R350,000 and R600,000 a year, who are too…
8 May 5AM 15 min