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In this instalment of The Fiscal Cliff – a Mail & Guardian series on how South Africa’s budget has been shaped – Sarah Smit considers the intimate link between the country’s ultra-high unemployment rate and austerity

The Nordic model holds some insight into how to close South Africa’s yawning income and wealth gap

The minister underlined that in the wake of efforts to grow the economy, the government must respect budget constraint