Speaker agrees to postpone medium-term budget statement to end of October, Treasury says
The MTBPS was originally scheduled for October 21, and was to have closely followed the release of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recovery plan
14 October 2020 - 11:13
National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise has agreed to finance minister Tito Mboweni's request to postpone the upcoming medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) to October 28, subject to the approval of parliament’s programming committee.
Mboweni made this request “having taken into consideration the complex and unusual circumstances visited upon us by the Covid-19 pandemic, which included the tabling of a supplementary budget in June 2020,” the Treasury said in a statement on Wednesday morning. ..
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