It is commonplace for national budgets to reveal a country’s true priorities. By extension, spending cuts show what you don’t value.
The recent medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) suggests the National Treasury couldn’t care less about equality and the black middle class, but really wants more infrastructure and lower debt. To achieve those goals it seems prepared to shred the implicit social compacts that hold our inequitable and divided country together. ..
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