Social grants, #FeesMustFall and Covid-19 jabs: 5 takeouts from the MTBPS

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Social grants, #FeesMustFall and Covid-19 jabs: 5 takeouts from the MTBPS
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Here are five things you need to know from finance minister Enoch Godongwana's medium-term budget policy speech.

Image:Finance minister Enoch Godongwana said on Thursday SA cannot afford to have vaccine hesitancy if it is serious about prioritising saving the economy in future waves of Covid-19 infection.

More than 23-million Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in SA since the rollout began in February.

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