But Godongwana’s tone hints at his hesitancy to commit to an income grant in the longer term. SA needs to be ‘clear and unambiguous on the trade-offs’ it is willing to make, says Enoch Godongwana. Image: Bloomberg Despite a tax revenue windfall and growing calls ahead of the mid-term budget for the introduction of a new basic income grant (BIG) for unemployed workers, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana did not give the idea much airtime in his debut Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) speech on Thursday.
In fact, he did not specifically mention the BIG proposal at all.
Instead, Godongwana reiterated a […]
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