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Civil action organisation Outa gives the MTBPS a 3 out of 10, as it cuts programmes instead of politicians’ benefits and repeats promises to ‘reconfigure’ departments and entities sometime in the future.
He adds that parliament’s budget undergoes restructuring, with an overall cut of R215 million. Within this, about R1 billion appears to be redirected to capital expenditure, seemingly the start of Parliament’s reconstruction which is long overdue.Duvenage says Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, painted a gloomy outlook of the country’s financial position and that is putting it mildly.
“Glaringly missing are the results of National Treasury’s efficiency reviews and the previously promised introduction of zero-based budgeting, which we would like to see implemented in local government in particular. The MTBPS spending cuts seem devoid of focused efforts for better value, appearing as mere reductions.”
Duvenage says it is encouraging to hear about the introduction of public-private-partnership funding mechanisms for capital expenditure projects on matters such as water and sanitation. “That said, the bar for the MTBPS was set low to begin with and the deterioration in state finances does not come as a surprise. The South African government did not use the pandemic commodity price windfall to effectively build up fiscal buffers.”
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