From fiscal stabilisation to economic delivery The 2026 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), delivered on 21 October, presented a cautiously positive assessment of South Africa’s public finances, but a more sobering picture of the country’s growth prospects and state capacity. While fiscal consolidation is gaining traction, the challenge is to translate greater fiscal credibility into…
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Looking Ahead SONA 2026
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As President Cyril Ramaphosa prepares to deliver the 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA) at Cape Town City Hall on Thursday, the tension between spectacle and substance will again be unavoidable. The slow reconstruction of the National Assembly building, which was gutted by fire on 2 January 2022, has become more than an infrastructural…
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