As the country gears up for FinMin Enoch Godongwana’s first Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement, civil society has been campaigning for increases in the unemployment grant among other extensions.
JOHANNESBURG - As the country gears up for Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s first Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement , civil society has been campaigning for increases in the unemployment grant among other extensions.
Cry of the Xcluded and the Unemployed People’s Movement representative Khokhoma Motsi said the ANC-led government had already implemented a veiled austerity budget against the poor and as a result, they had little hope of a departure from this norm. At the last MTBPS, former Minister Tito Mboweni announced a series of budget cuts to several social services as the government clamped down on spending.
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