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Sustainable affordability depends on rising incomes, productive investment and economic reforms that lower costs without shifting the bill to taxpayers.
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Sustainable affordability depends on rising incomes, productive investment and economic reforms that lower costs without shifting the bill to taxpayers.
Maarten van Doesburgh from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology pleads for the unlocking of economic growth through structural public-private partnerships and infrastructure investment.
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will deliver the mid-term budget update on October 21.
KPMG SA’s Frank Blackmore believes that ‘whereas everybody overseas is basically a price taker, a market taker, Africa can make itself a market maker’.
A revenue overrun could narrow the budget deficit to 3.5% of GDP, while improving fiscal discipline and structural reforms strengthen the case for a return to investment-grade status within two to three years.
Tonight, we cover market updates with Absa CIB, African credit ratings, carbon investment in Africa, the World Economic Outlook, online gambling regulation and the benefits of owning multiple properties.