Minister Mboweni in tight space over MTBPS

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Finance Minister TitoMboweni is riding the storm with political parties calling on him to stick to his guns and cut spending in the wake of the impact caused by Covid_19.

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On Saturday the DA, Cope and the UDM said Mboweni has very little room to manoeuvre over the reduction of the size of the cake.

The government is facing challenges of fixing the infrastructure, increasing unemployment and ailing State-Owned Entities."Unemployment is the second biggest enemy after Covid-19. We don't know what are they going to do with the R350 grant after December. After January what are they going to do," said Bloem.

Mboweni has said this will cost another R6 billion and the government will have to reprioritise in departments to find the money. The government has over the years saw the increase in debt and it was now more than R3 trillion and debt service costs are R220 billion a year.

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