Opposition parties slam 'immoral' SAA bailout in Tito Mboweni's mini-budget

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And from a new bailout for bankrupt SAA to SA's rapidly ballooning debt, Mboweni's critics had much to fire upon.

And from a new bailout for bankrupt SAA to SA's rapidly ballooning debt, Mboweni's critics had much to fire upon.

The bailout is the airline's second this year after a R6.4bn lifeline it was promised in February's main budget. The DA claimed the bailout would be funded by a R1.2bn budget cut to the police, courts and prosecuting authorities, and a R1.4bn cut to the education budget, among others.Democratic Alliance shadow finance minister Geordin Hill-Lewis

The service fees on the debt amount alone ... are expected to increase to R355bn a year by 2023/24,” he said. “Simply put, the country has run out of money.” The federation was also concerned that there was “no plan” to fight the corruption and wasteful expenditure that accounts for around R150bn of SA's annual budget.It urged the government to adopt its proposal to ban “politically exposed people” and their families from doing business with the state and implement a transparent, online public state procurement system.

The dire state of the economy and public finances had worsened during the lockdown, costing an estimated 2 million jobs.

 

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A big smile and fat cheeks don't balance the budget tito_mboweni ...neither does stealing like CyrilRamaphosa and you and your friends do it

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