PETER BRUCE: Budget’s lack of a growth pitch stumps even Mantashe
Our finance ministers are bank tellers, glorified accountants or financial advisers to rest of cabinet
13 March 2025 - 05:00
ANC chair and minerals minister Gwede Mantashe did his best to defend the budget that his colleague over at the Treasury delivered yesterday. “There’s nothing in it that’s antigrowth,” he told a TV camera.
Quite. In a way, modern-day SA finance ministers have come to play an almost underhand role in our politics at budget time. Because our parliament and cabinet, and indeed budgets, are modelled on Westminster, we sort of expect the outcomes to resemble the UK as well. ..
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