A Budget from a Broken Government
26 October 2022
Click here for the DA's live reaction to the Medium Term Budget Speech.
No relief from the rising costs of living. No prospects of economic growth. More debt and more bailouts.
In today’s midterm policy statement, we expected the minister to announce policy interventions that would have resulted in economic growth and desperately needed jobs, and alleviate the plight of the most vulnerable South Africans.
To do this he needed to signal a policy direction that would enable the private sector, in particular SMMEs, to do business more easily in our economy. Instead, he reinforced the proven failed developmental state model that places a dysfunctional state at the centre of our economy through more bailouts to SOEs and accelerated government expenditure.