HERMAN MASHABA: A new, post-coronavirus budget is essential for SA’s recovery
How will the Covid-19 benefits and restarting the economy be funded, given that we are solely reliant on foreign funding?
29 April 2020 - 05:05
Last Friday, finance minister Tito Mboweni made the welcome decision to retable the national budget in parliament. The budget adopted prior to Covid-19 becoming a pandemic is clearly no longer worth the paper it was printed on due to significant expenditure aimed at combating the coronavirus.
Aggressive measures have been put in place to support the efforts of healthcare personnel, law enforcement agencies and those dependent on social grants. ..
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