A tempting windfall could be the test of Godongwana's fiscal prudence

The commodities boom has helped give state revenues a surprise boost —will the new finance minister use it wisely?

08 August 2021 - 00:00 By NAZMEERA MOOLA and SISAMKELE KOBUS

A new finance minister was always going to result in a lot of questions from financial markets. Markets quite liked Tito Mboweni. He was trying to hold the line on fiscal discipline and limiting transfers to underperforming state-owned enterprises (SOEs)...

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