EDITORIAL: Budgeting for SA like walking a fiscal tightrope
A much stronger economy would make it a lot easier to square the fiscal equation and stabilise debt
19 February 2025 - 05:00
SA is making only very slow progress towards the promised growth lift-off, and this week’s budget may well show the consequences.
At a time when there are pressures from all sides to spend more, on everything from social grants to defence to healthcare to more state-owned enterprise bailouts, government revenue could come in as much as R30bn lower than last February’s budget estimates for the current fiscal year...
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