Finance minister Enoch Godongwana finally presented a 2025 budget, his third, to parliament on Wednesday that he might safely assume is safe.

He dropped his mad hunt for a VAT increase to keep the state paying salaries and raised the fuel levy, is counting on an extra allocation to the revenue service to help it collect at least another R35bn and holding back on the spending increases that the VAT increases would have paid for...

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