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No room for politics in Tito’s no-nonsense budget

21 February 2019 - 06:00 By Ranjeni Munusamy
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Finance minister Tito Mboweni at a media "lock-up" ahead of him delivering the annual budget speech on February 20 2019.
Finance minister Tito Mboweni at a media "lock-up" ahead of him delivering the annual budget speech on February 20 2019.
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The first point finance minister Tito Mboweni made was that the national budget is “in the interest of our people and our country, and not in the narrow objectives of any political party”.

It was “to safeguard the sound financial status of the republic”.

No previous finance minister has had to make this point.

Listen to further analysis of the budget here:

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