The Growing Up Budget – After the bailouts comes babelas: MTBPS 2023 webinar
BizNews founder Alec Hogg shares what he picked up from a morning in the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2023 “lock up”…
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Investors reassured but medium term risks loom for SA economy – Thea Fourie, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Finance Minister Enoch Godogwana has described South Africa’s public finances as significantly weaker in his mid-term budget.
SA economy falls short of Government forecasts – Dawie Roodt
Godongwana’s forecasts according to Dawie Roodt, the Chief Economist at the Efficient Group, are far too optimistic.
Alec Hogg at MTBPS: A Young Democracy maturing. At last.
My internal scale didn’t quite get into the positive today. But after years of decline, it finally feels like we’re on the right path.
MTBPS23 – Reform agenda will be in focus in Budget 2024
The ANC will be laying some reformist cards on the table ahead of the watershed 2024 National Election.
MTBPS23 – Finally grasping the R400bn a year Transnet nettle
Six months ago it was Eskom that most troubled behatted finance minister Enoch Godongwana on his big public day.
MTBPS23 – SA’s “social wage” spending massively outperforms peers
Treasury documents disclose that Pretoria now allocates 61% of its non-interest spending to the “social wage”
MTBPS23 – SA’s Debt Disaster where 20c in every tax-rand now goes to pay interestÂ
There’s a sage economics lesson contained in a single paragraph of Treasury’s documentation on the MTBPS.
MTBPS23 – Private sector, Kusile, Reforms brighten electricity picture
February’s National Budget was mostly about Eskom. The state’s former electricity monopoly is also a central player in the MTBPS.
MTBPS23 – How Enoch intends (slowly) getting SA out of self-inflicted messÂ
Perhaps the most telling number in finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s entire presentation comes in his foreword to its 73-page outline.