The Budget presentation by Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana was a successful pragmatic balancing act, where he and his National Treasury team had to take into consideration the priority areas of the economic and human landscape.
To start with, they had to consider the global economic dynamics, considering the global inflationary pressures that forced them to revise South Africa’s economic growth rate predictions downwards.
They also had to take into considera- tion the huge economic challenges posed by Eskom load shedding, considering that South Africa
