Cybersurf

Hello good morning and welcome to the budget edition of Cybersurf – I am Steven Lang taking you this fine morning to few sites that might help you find out about, and digest the budget.

The first place you might want to look would be at the ministry’s home page – but that would not be a good place to start because everything related to the finance ministry is actually on the National Treasury page which you will find at treasury dot gov dot za.- that is treasury dot G.O.V dot za

This is a very interesting site that I am sure will receive a huge amount of traffic in the next few hours.

I say it is interesting because it is an old fashioned, mish mash collection of vast amounts of documents. I have been visiting this site for years and it is in dire need of a re-organisation because there is so much information on the site but the navigation is so haphazard that it is not easy to search for anything specific.

Anyway, the most important thing for today – the budget – is very easy to find boldy displayed on the front page. No – don’t go rushing off, the speech is not on the site - yet! But the place is clearly marked where you will be able to find the budget speech soon after two pm.

There is also a link to a “Tips for Trevor” page – a concept that was born on this very program – AM Live – about ten years ago, when we invited listeners to send us faxes with “tips for Trevor”

The links page is useful with links to many, relevant financial institutions – but it also shows its age with links to a number of banks that have long since been swallowed up by the oligopoly.

If you are not going to be near a radio today and would like to hear the Budget speech anyway, you should logon on to SABCnews.com. The site has a really great feature section dedicated to the budget where you will be able to watch Trevor Manuel deliver his speech on a web cast. To get to this section, there is a link right at the top of the front page, or you can navigate down the left hand side till you get to the “Features” section – click on the button, and Cyber gods willing – you will be able to watch the presentation on line.

The full text of the speech will be available on SABCnews.com shortly after the minister delivers his concluding remarks.

For more analysis of the speech you should also visit the sites of the big banks – they all have economic research units and they are usually quite quick to put this information on their respective sites – I am thinking here about absa.co.za; standard.co.za; and fnb.co.za.

But if you want all first hand, listen to SAfm this afternoon from two pm when you will be able to listen to the speech and then have loads of analysis all the way through to six o clock.

And with that, we come to the end of this week’s Cybersurf. Please tune in again next week when we’ll have a look at the status of e-government in South Africa.

// posted by Steven Lang @ 6:39 am