Briefing Paper 620 – The National Budget: Time to Look Upstream by Mike Pothier
The dramatic decision to postpone this year’s budget speech at the last second, and the fact that there is clearly a major disagreement on fiscal matters between the ANC and its coalition partners – and possibly within senior ANC leadership circles too – surely means that the time has come to thoroughly review government’s thinking on how it spends money and on how it goes about raising the money in the first place.