EDITORIAL | Budget doesn’t answer the main question: how is SA going to grow?
As long as we are hamstrung by servicing an inordinate amount of debt, economic development will remain static
11 November 2021 - 20:30
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana ticked all the right boxes in his delivery of the medium term budget policy statement in parliament, and in doing so carried on the work started by his predecessor Tito Mboweni. He even remarked to journalists that the only difference between him and Mboweni was that he wore better shoes. Maybe, but even with his better shoes, Godongwana had little room to even wiggle his toes, and of course he is eager for all to see that he is indeed walking in Mboweni’s footsteps...
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