David Ansara was featured in Maroela Media on 2 November on the FMF’s reaction to the inadequate levels of austerity evident in the 2023 medium-term budget policy statement.
David Ansara was featured in Landbou (Netwerk24) on Thursday, 2 November, on the FMF’s reaction to the inadequate levels of austerity evident in the 2023 medium-term budget policy statement.
David Ansara was featured in Polity on the Free Market Foundation’s reaction to the inadequate levels of austerity evident in the 2023 medium-term budget policy statement.
The finance minister’s sense of fiscal responsibility is welcome, but wholly insufficient given the scale of the crisis.
Some of us warned that with our high, structural unemployment rate, the government would not be able to get rid of this grant once it was introduced.
Some realpolitik and Machiavellian manoeuvring might be necessary for us to transcend the artificial barrier that has been constructed in the road to a flourishing future.
The corporatist state is the biggest threat to individual liberty that has emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It would be better if we never had this SRD grant but now that we have it, the government has to end it as soon as possible.
The route of government spending fueling economic growth has been tried, and it has failed, according to Treasury itself.
The FMF has responded favourably to finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s desire to bring fiscal restraint and discipline to South Africa’s public sector.
