All eyes on Enoch’s balancing skills
With South Africa sowing the seeds of a fiscal crisis, finance minister Enoch Godongwana will have to tread an increasingly frayed tightrope when he delivers the medium-term budget. Will sanity prevail?
19 October 2023 - 05:01
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana must be sweating.
In just two weeks, on Wednesday November 1, he’ll deliver the medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) to a nation that’s anxious about South Africa’s fiscal health — and whether the government even has any levers left to pull to restore it...
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