budget 2021
COVID RESPONSE: Treasury’s big jab job all paid for
How do you spend your way out of a pandemic? Well, buy the people their vaccines. For starters
25 February 2021 - 06:00
After the devastation of the Covid-19 pandemic, SA could do with a shot in the arm.
And for R10.3bn, that is exactly what it is getting, in the form of a "massive and free" vaccination programme, says the National Treasury, which will allocate a further R9bn in case costs escalate...
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