PETER BRUCE: A budget surplus could just allow Ramaphosa to gloss over Eskom crisis
With load-shedding set to stay, a surplus would allow Ramaphosa to put his hand in the state’s pocket
23 February 2023 - 05:00
The next few days will make clear what President Cyril Ramaphosa might be devising to give himself a fighting chance of at least retaining a majority in parliament in 2024 elections. Or a functioning minority, even if it is inevitable that the ANC will lose Gauteng and possibly KwaZulu-Natal.
Recent polling by the DA is said to have the ANC below 40% nationally. In the same poll it had the DA up at 27% and the EFF on 10%, but other parties like the IFP, Freedom Front Plus and ActionSA gathering enough support to take the opposition vote (excluding the EFF) deep into the thirties...
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