Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has earned respect for his commitment to ensuring fiscal and debt sustainability through a fiscal consolidation trajectory.

Though we expect him to stick to this policy when he tables his eagerly awaited budget speech this week, there will be major risks to expenditure from the expected bailout of Eskom, as well as the public sector wage bill...

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