The South African government’s newly-revised macroeconomic forecasts announced in today’s medium-term budget policy statement seem more plausible than those in February’s budget. Even so, the expectation that the public debt-to-GDP ratio will stabilise over the coming years looks optimistic. We think that the debt ratio will grind higher and a sovereign debt downgrade remains a distinct possibility.
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