Before the coronavirus outbreak there were just two questions that dominated suburban dinner parties: how bad is SA’s fiscal situation and should we be leaving the country. 

The answer to the first is that things look a lot worse since the February budget, even worse since the 2019 GDP stats came out, and much, much worse since the onset of the pandemic...

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