And now it’s over to Moody’s Investors Service to pass their judgment.

Finance minister Tito Mboweni’s medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) was bad. None of it will have come as a surprise as the market has had time to digest updated numbers — from everyone from the SA Reserve Bank to the ratings companies — since the Treasury released the main budget in February...

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