When senior Treasury people, who are not usually given to hyperbole, start publicly talking about those three dreaded letters — IMF — one should get worried.

It should however be made clear that they were not suggesting that there is an imminent danger of SA going with a begging bowl to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) any time soon...

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