TOM EATON | To squeeze the tax base, leave it to Godongwana; to grow the economy, leave it to God
The consensus is clear: the only way South Africa gets out of its fiscal mess is to grow the economy, but is the ANC up to the task?
14 March 2025 - 04:30
As economists tell the ANC that it needs to make the pie bigger, and it wonders whether it might be time to form a ministerial task team to find out what pies are and whether you can make them while floating facedown in a pool of slowly warming champagne, the budget hangs in the balance...
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