The 2020 budget was a masterstroke, though it is unlikely to help SA avoid a credit rating downgrade — that ship sailed long ago.

Some form of National Health Insurance (NHI) is mandatory, but we need to get governance back into government before we allow any further expansion of the feeding trough. ..

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