Finance minister Tito Mboweni during his medium-term budget speech in parliament, Cape Town, on October 28 2020.Some South Africans were not impressed by finance minister Tito Mboweni's medium-term budget speech which was tabled in parliament on Wednesday.to implement its business rescue plan. Mboweni told MPs that the Treasury reduced spending plans of government departments to raise funds for the airline.
This means that salary budgets for government employees in the departments of basic education, higher education and health, among others, will be reduced over the next three years. R6.5bn was also allocated to SAA and will go towards settling the embattled airline's guaranteed debt and interest. DA MP Geordin Hill-Lewis slammed the move, saying the minister was pressured to cough up the funds for SAA. He said the money could have been used towards building RDP houses, new clinics and schools among other things. He called the budget speech “a slap in the face to poor South Africans”.
Finance minister Tito Mboweni tabled his medium-term budget policy statement on October 28 2020. Many called this particular one a 'balancing act' in light of SA's having to rebuild its economy due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Government spending and debt, SAA rescue plan and the State Capture Commission of Inquiry were just some of the topics covered in his address.
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