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Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has warned that the country is heading for a debt crisis if it doesn't change its spending habits.
He delivered the crucial 2020 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) on Wednesday.
The Treasury puts its estimate of economic contraction for 2020 at 7.8 per cent, recovering to real GDP growth of 3.3 per cent in 2021.
Cutting the public wage bill is one of the main fiscal measures Mboweni outlined to narrow the budget deficit and stabilise debt over the next five years.
"Failure to address the deterioration in the fiscal position could lead to a sovereign debt default, which would result in a reversal of many gains of the democratic era.”
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At the same time government will find the R10.5 billion it promised to help fund the bailout of South African Airways (SAA) through departmental budget cuts.
Nedbank economist Busisiwe Radebe says the emphasis should rather be on generating revenue.
The thing that makes my eyes go big is how are we going to get the wage bill that low?
Busisiwe Radebe, Economist - Nedbank
We're in trouble... You need more revenues and we're not actually talking about that! We're talking about trying to battle this thing and trying to get the wage bill down. No - let's look at revenue as a percentage of GDP, that's what we should be talking about.
Busisiwe Radebe, Economist - Nedbank
We can't be stealing money from these departments to actually give to SAA - we need to increase revenues...
Busisiwe Radebe, Economist - Nedbank
Is National Treasury not robbing Peter to pay Paul in the case of SAA?
Bruce Whitfield puts the question to Treasury Director General, Dondo Mogajane.
No! It's not denting the credibility of the Treasury. The Treasury works within the collective of the whole of government and Cabinet...
Dondo Mogajane, Director General - National Treasury
We said we're not going to borrow any more cents to fund SAA. The money will come from the framework allocated in the Supplementary and February budget, and that's what we did! As you correctly said, we had to borrow from Peter to pay Paul in the system.
Dondo Mogajane, Director General - National Treasury
So we reduced a number of budgets to get to the R10.5 billion... within the fiscal framework presented at the Supplementary Budget.
Dondo Mogajane, Director General - National Treasury
South African Revenue Service Commissioner Edward Kieswitter also comments on the plan to reduce the public wage bill and what Sars is hoping for in terms of supplementary funding.
Listen to the reactions to Mboweni's 'mini-budget' below:
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