With the budget approaching you might expect boardrooms and executives of SA’s biggest companies to be filled with fear of election spending splurges and higher taxes to pay for it.

While there are certainly some fears of the risks around the medium run path of fiscal policy (especially under certain outcomes for the elections), it seems boardrooms are calmer than some parts of the market. ..

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