Hilary Joffe

Johannesburg

Columnist at Business Live

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HILARY JOFFE: Politics delaying Reserve Bank governor lowering inflation target

1 week ago | businesslive.co.za | Hilary Joffe

‘Mountainhead’ is a super-smart, barbed attack on the digital era and the dangerously insecure men who sit at the top of it
Transnet gets further R51bn from transport minister

2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Linda Ensor |Hilary Joffe |Freddy Mavunda

LUNCH MARKETS Business Day TV spoke to Jason Horn from Steyn Capital Management
HILARY JOFFE: How the budget was paid for in ‘school fees’

2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Hilary Joffe

Trump is not a passing figure: there are more fundamental changes in the US that will outlive the second Trump administration
GNU takes a win, taxpayers take a hit in Budget 3.0

2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Hilary Joffe

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana pared back extra spending on front-line services and infrastructure and hiked the fuel levy for the first time in three years as he tabled a third version of his 2025 budget that showed the government still on track to stabilise the public debt this year.
HILARY JOFFE: Godongwana’s trillion-rand question

2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Hilary Joffe

The budget would commit a lot of money to infrastructure, President Cyril Ramaphosa said at the recent launch of the second phase of Operation Vulindlela. “For the first time in many, many years, we are now going to be able to spend up to a trillion rand on infrastructure over the medium term,” he said. “It’s a budget that will make us look forward.”It was a pointer to the way finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s Budget 3.0 might be framed today.
HILARY JOFFE: State digital payments could be a game-changer for SA

3 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Hilary Joffe

When government launched its digital transformation road map this week, much of the focus was on its potential to improve service delivery for citizens. There was little focus on an aspect of the road map with much more potential to boost the economy — digital payments. Building public digital infrastructure is one of the new items on Operation Vulindlela’s phase two to-do list. But OV is meant to be about removing barriers to growth.
Creecy urges business to ‘get its act together’ in taking over running of rail lines

3 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Hilary Joffe

Transport minister Barbara Creecy is working with the Treasury to find ways to enable private players to invest in helping to fix Transnet’s rail infrastructure in the short term, with new private partnership deals on the rail lines expected to take 18-24 more months to conclude.
Much to like about SA economy’s sophistication, says Citi

3 weeks ago | amcham.co.za | Hilary Joffe

Home news much about sa economys sophistication says citi by Hilary JoffeIt is critical for SA to lift its low growth rate, but it remains attractive because of the scale and sophistication of its economy, says a senior executive of Citigroup, whose SA business was doing “very well” last year.
Much to like about SA economy’s sophistication, says Citi

3 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Hilary Joffe

It is critical for SA to lift its low growth rate, but it remains attractive because of the scale and sophistication of its economy, says a senior executive of Citigroup, whose SA business was doing “very well” last year.
HILARY JOFFE: New phase could dilute Operation Vulindlela’s effectiveness

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Hilary Joffe

When President Cyril Ramaphosa celebrated Operation Vulindlela’s successes and launched its second phase at a flower-bedecked gathering at the Union Buildings this week you had to wonder whether he was doing its chances more harm than good. So successful has the unit been that the president has been inundated with demands to be part of it, said presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya. Ramaphosa suggested he might well add procurement to a new phase of Vulindlela. Talk about a poisoned chalice...