MAMOKETE LIJANE: Not the remedy, but still a salve

The budget tabled by finance minister Tito Mboweni this week reflects the early effort to wrestle with the conflicting priorities of supporting growth, while shifting the fiscus onto a more sustainable path.

This is not the budget that signals that SA is out of the woods, as far as the threat of a fiscal meltdown and its concomitant effects on policy stability and sustainable growth are concerned...