Charles Molele
Opposition parties have slammed Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s maiden budget speech as ‘uninspiring, lacking in detail’ and ‘unable to disentangle South Africa from economic stagnation.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane said Mboweni’s budget speech shows that the ANC government has no coherent plans to grow the South African economy and create much-needed jobs.
“This is a lipstick budget speech. It looks good from the outside, but has no content at all and it is unsustainable. If we don’t change government [after the May 8 elections] we will still be delivering the same budget as we did today,” said Maimane.
“SA is in a difficult space at the moment and the minister minced his words about state-owned enterprises. We must sell SOEs once. Clearly, the ANC has no plans to grow the economy.”
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