Economic development at heart of budget, says Godongwana

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25 May 2025 - 00:00

While the National Treasury had to scale back funds it hoped to allocate to various programmes in this year’s budget, it managed to squeeze through enough to keep economic development spending at R289.8bn, with R1-trillion for infrastructure over the medium term...

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