It’s funny to think that less than six weeks ago, the National Treasury’s "number one" task was to resolve SA’s electricity supply crisis.

That was a different, pre-Covid-19 lifetime, and the pandemic has radically changed government spending priorities, if not forever, then for a long time to come...

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